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Posted: 2023-03-05 12:54:03

Peter Bol says he has suffered permanent damage to his reputation after testing positive to EPO, but has vowed to push on and chase 800m gold at the Paris Olympics "to prove a lot of people wrong".

The national record holder steadfastly maintains his innocence, despite being informed by Sport Integrity Australia (SIA) on January 10 that he had tested positive to performance-enhancing synthetic EPO.

Bol's training and competition ban was lifted last month when his B sample returned an "atypical finding", meaning it was neither positive or negative.

An SIA investigation into the case is ongoing.

If SIA determines that Bol has no further case to answer, he is set to return to the track in Europe in the next couple of months to chase the qualifying standard for the world championships in Budapest in August and next year's Paris Olympics.

"There's always going to be speculations, there's always going to be noise out there," Bol told the Seven Network's Spotlight program in an interview aired on Sunday evening.

"But at the end of the day, whether I perform well, people are going to think you're on the juice.

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