Friday 9 August 2019

American Basketball Player Donell “D.J.” Cooper,

has been banned from the sport for two years, 


after failing a drugs test, well I guess there are a number of players in any sport that take performance enhancing drugs, but this is not why he was banned, he was banned because he is pregnant! the 28-year-old point guard who last played for AS Monaco, in Europe, was suspended for two years by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) after a urine sample was found to contain high levels of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG)—a hormone produced by the female placenta during pregnancy, the FIBA assumed that Cooper had submitted a woman’s urine as his own, without knowing that she was pregnant at the time, so they banned him from playing competitively for two years, the FIBA has refused to comment on the details of this case, it did clarify that Donnell Cooper will be allowed to play again on June 24, 2020, presumably after giving birth. 


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