Tyler Lee and Carla Cornejo Plascencia have both received a 4-year sanction for violating the CrossFit Games Drug Testing Policy. Lee and Cornejo Plascencia, both team athletes, failed their in-competition drug test while competing at Semifinals.
Lee, a member of CrossFit Mayhem Somos, tested positive for 3a-hydroxy-2a-methyl-5a-androstan-17-one, a metabolite of Drostanolone as well as GW1516-sulfone and GW1516-sulfoxide, metabolites of GW501516 at the North America East Semifinal.
Cornejo Plascencia, a member of CrossFit Complex Wodex, tested positive for 16a-hydroxy-1-methyl-5a-androst-1-en-3,17-dione and 3a-hydroxy-1-methylene-5a-androstan-17-one, metabolites of metenolone at the North America West Semifinal.
Both athletes appealed their results, but were unsuccessful in their attempt to reduce their sanction. Both have received a 4-year sanction running through May 2028.
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The news comes at the same time as Ivan Kukartsev was able to prove that one of his supplements was contaminated. Kukartsev received a lessened 2-year sanction from CrossFit.
And then there is Marcha van Glaanen Weygel. I broke the story last week that she was currently serving a sanction with the International Masters Weightlifting Association following a failed drug test at the 2021 European Masters Weightlifting Championships. Per its Drug Testing Policy, CrossFit has the ability to recognize the test results and sanction from another competition and has elected to do so.
As a result, van Glaanen Weygel is unable to compete in a CrossFit licensed competition until October 2025.
Van Glannen Weygel was slated to compete at the Masters CrossFit Games in the 55-59 year-old division later this month. She has officially been replaced by Theresa Harris who finished 31st in the Age Group Semifinals.
