Writing publically on Sunday night, the 100m freestyle relay swimmer detailed in a two-page letter her feelings and emotions about finding out and also revealed the substance which ASADA’s testing picked up.
On July 12, Jack was called into the Swimming Australia head coach’s room.
“Unaware of what I was walking into, I was happy and bubbly as always. That all changed when I walked through the door to be told ASADA had called,” she wrote.
“My brain instantly went into frantic thoughts, something was wrong, I had never missed a test, it wasn’t my time slot, so why would they want me? I sat down, waiting for ASADA to answer my call and then a woman’s voice said those haunting words for any athlete: “we have tested your sample and it has come back positive to a prohibited substance”.
“I felt my heart break instantaneously. I couldn’t breathe to answer her next couple of questions.
“There was nothing I could do at that moment, nothing the people around me could do to help me. I was in complete shock, asking myself how and why is this happening to me.”
The substance was Ligandrol, something which is used to…
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