We’ve landed here because Rickard – who also won two Olympic silver medals in 2008, is a multiple world champion and former president of the Australian Swimmers Association – has tested positive to a banned diuretic.
Diuretics are also known as masking agents in sport, and that’s where the sinister soundtrack tends to play.
In short, a urine sample Rickard produced for doping control at 2012 London Games time contained furosemide. That furosemide has been detected in what Rickard and his lawyers are terming “exceedingly small concentration” is a fact. But so is furosemide’s
