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The ITA cleared Germán Darío Gómez Becerra of a boldenone positive with a finding of No Fault or Negligence. That verdict matters more than the acquittal itself: meat contamination defences almost never survive cycling's anti-doping process.
Gómez Becerra tested positive out-of-competition in December 2025 while recovering from collarbone surgery in Colombia. The ITA found the boldenone came from contaminated meat he ate there — a claim athletes routinely raise and almost never prove, since the burden sits on them to trace the exact source. No period of ineligibility was imposed, and the ITA now calls the matter resolved. For a 25-year-old South American rider with no prior history, getting a governing body to accept that explanation is the rarer story here.
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