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I manage my paperwork but I ain't no pro with a team of people doing admin for me. I wish.
Maybe he did check and the doc subsequently forgot to post papers. We don't know.
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Maybe he did check and the doc subsequently forgot to post papers
You don't get a TUE just by filling in the application form, you get one when the panel agrees with you and your doctors that you need one. As such, and given the strict liability, the athlete should wait until he sees the actual issued TUE before he starts taking the drugs.
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There seem to be two errors, rather than systematic flaws - Yates failed to take responsibility for his own TUEs (and despite what @hippy says, I think it's an athletes responsibility to check his own paperwork), and having offloaded the admin to his team, the team cocked up.
He might still be in trouble if the UCI/CADF refuse to grant him what would be in effect a retrospective TUE by imposing a minimal sanction. You don't automatically get a TUE for terbutaline just because you have asthma, you also have to demonstrate that you need terbutaline rather than one of the other drugs which doesn't need a TUE.