SAS Australia star Shayna Jack’s vow amid drug ban nightmare
SAS Australia star Shayna Jack says there’s no hard feelings between her and former rugby player Nick ‘Honey Badger’ Cummins who was criticised for crash tackling her in one of the earlier challenges.
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Shayna Jack says she won’t stop until she clears her name after being accused of being a drug cheat.
The four-time World Championship medallist was suspended from the sport by Swimming Australia in June 2019, after returning a positive test for the banned substance Ligandrol, popular with body builders, while participating in a routine drug test.
Making her exit on Seven’s hit reality show, SAS Australia, the 21-year-old detailed the torment she has experienced this past year.
“Every day for the past year has been a living nightmare but I am someone who will speak up when it’s not right,” she said. “I’m not going to sit back and let people try and accuse me of something I didn’t do. I won’t stop fighting, I will clear my name, that’s all that matters to me.”
Jack is one of 17 familiar faces to compete on the controversial reality show, alongside the likes of Candice Warner, James Magnussen and Jackson Warne.
In an explosive interrogation with chief instructor Ant Middleton, she said: “The one thing that hurts me more than anything to my core is that yes, I’ve had a dream to represent my country at the Olympics since I was 10 but it’s more the fact that I’ve always done the right thing by my sport and by my country.
“I’ve never felt so much pain and anger that I feel the fact that I don’t have control over what’s happening. I don’t know what I did to deserve this. I can’t go see my coach, I can’t swim with my squad, I can’t go and play another sport just for fun. I just want to be able to go back to swimming.”
Speaking to Confidential, Jack said there was no hard feelings between her and former rugby player Nick ‘Honey Badger’ Cummins.
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Cummins was widely criticised for crash tackling Jack in one of the earlier challenges.
“I just think he didn’t realise how light I was and how light on my feet I am,” she said. “I just fell over like a tonne of bricks. Badger and I are fine, we are good, he is a great guy.”