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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Matildas aivi luik fights doping suspension imposed despite not undergoing a drugs test - What They Never Told You

Aivi Luik Matildas Wada Australia the World AntiDoping Agency

Aivi Luik plays for the Matildas — Aivi Luik playing for the Matildas. The defender has been charged with a doping violation that incurred a suspension dating back to her time playing in Italy in 2022, despite not having undergone a drug test. Photograph: Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images

The Matildas veteran Aivi Luik withdrew herself from Olympics consideration in May after the Italian anti-doping agency suspended her for a breach relating to a painkilling injection two years earlier, despite Luik not having undergone a drug test.

On 24 April the agency, Nado Italia, emailed Luik to say she was being charged with a doping breach and would be suspended for three months.

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