Quote Originally Posted by Simmi View Post
This is all nice in theory - but like BleAivano says when it comes to anti-doping you can't have one rule for one guy and a rule for another. You set bad precedents for people who are trying to break the rules. At the end of the day you are responsible for what goes in your body. End of story. For a guy who is not in regular competition it's reasonable Matton wouldn't know that he needed a TUE for that sort of medication. He's held his hands up. The suspended penalty reflects all that. How is it harsh? He's not banned from competing. A good lesson for everyone.
Like with all rules you have to understand the intent behind the rule rather than try to apply it to everything.

Even court systems manage to do this, so why can't a Belgian rally organization?