Jack speaks out after 'very difficult two years'

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Australian swimmer Shayna Jack has said that a "difficult 2 years" are down her arsenic she eyes a instrumentality to competitory swimming.

After receiving confirmation past week that she was escaped to instrumentality to the excavation and compete, Jack said she felt relieved much than thing else.

"I deliberation the biggest feedback I've seen from anybody who I've met oregon caught up with has been that they've noticed I couldn't hitch the grin disconnected my face," she told Nine's Today.

Shayna Jack opens up aft nightmare prohibition ends

"I evidently person been grooming for the past mates of months but knowing that I don't person immoderate of those ineligible fees oregon tribunal cases to proceed with, it's conscionable bully to beryllium capable to absorption backmost connected my swimming completely."

Jack was suspended for 4 years aft investigating affirmative to the prohibited substance ligandrol - "an anabolic agent" - successful July 2019 earlier the FINA World Championships successful South Korea.

The prohibition was reduced to 2 years past twelvemonth by the CAS nevertheless Sport Integrity Australia (formerly known arsenic ASADA) and the World Anti-Doping Authority (WADA) appealed that determination successful December. The entreaty has present been dismissed.

"It was a very, precise hard 2 years. But I did person a truly bully enactment strategy astir me, being my spouse and my household and friends. And adjacent my manager arsenic well, my squad, they were each really, truly adjuvant throughout," she said.

"I deliberation for myself, it was conscionable knowing that I did thing incorrect and that I was going to get done this and beryllium to everybody that I would ne'er intentionally instrumentality anything.

"It's not conscionable astir me, it's astir the aboriginal athletes that travel aft me."

She said that some she and manager Dean Boxall person "a spot of a occurrence successful our belly" regarding her making up for mislaid time.

"I decidedly hold with him that I americium tougher, I americium stronger mentally and physically. It's present conscionable letting maine bash what I bash champion and swim," she said.

The 22-year-old is present focused connected qualifying for adjacent year's World Championships and Commonwealth Games, up of the Paris Olympics successful 2024.

She says she inactive doesn't cognize however the banned substance ended up successful her body.

"I decidedly haven't got to the bottommost exactly," she said.

"But I was capable to beryllium that connected the standard of probability, wherever it perchance could've travel from, being astir gyms and airports and each those benignant of things that were retired of my mean routine, that I had nary power over.

"So going forward, I'm precise strict with however I bash things and making definite that I'm connected apical of making definite that this doesn't hap again to myself oregon anybody else."

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