An undisclosed baseball player for the South Korean Doosan Bears team has been exonerated by his country’s anti-doping authorities after proving his innocence of using a stimulant called meclofenoxate.
This drug is actually found in the preservative chlorpensin, which is used in some cosmetics (shampoos, lotions and sunscreens).
According to Yonhap, the baseball player’s attorneys were referring to the precedent of American MMA fighter Rob Front, who was acquitted by USADA earlier this year in a case involving the same meclofenoxate.
Front had allegedly “contracted” the doping through sunscreen he had used the week before he tested positive.
