Who can anti-doping bureaucrats trust, 19-year-old Issam Asinga or the makers of Gatorade?
First off, you should probably spit out Gatorade just on general principle — you can’t ever forget it’s sold by the same folks who make Doritos. It’s got more sugar than a Snickers and pronounced links to, earning him a four-year ban from track and field after picograms of something called GW1516 were detected in his urine.
But you can feel plenty of fresh spanking outrage at Gatorade, and you certainly will, when you read the civil case filed this month by Asinga’s attorneys against the sports drink and its parent, PepsiCo, for negligence and product liability. A Texas A&M freshman who competes for Suriname and runs like a flash, Asinga was barred from the Paris Olympics after GW1516 was detected in a drug test.
“Okay so bad news, turns out we discontinued the gummies so we don’t have any more!” a company rep texted him, according to his suit. “ … They may come back but sound like we’ve had manufacturing issues!”to preserve portions of lots and to code them, in case things like say, poisonings, occur and the ingredients need to be traced. But somehow Gatorade just couldn’t find a companion bottle from this same lot.
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