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  • Mar, Mon, 2020
Sport

CAS clears American long jumper of doping charge, quashes ban

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Lausanne (Switzerland), March 9, 2020 (Reuters/NAN) The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Monday annulled the four-year ban imposed on Jarrion Lawson by the sport’s governing body World Athletics.

The annulment followed an appeal by the American long jumper and sprinter.

The 25-year-old, who was suspended last year after testing positive for the banned substance epitrenbolone, had denied any wrongdoing.

He said the substance could have entered his body through the consumption of contaminated beef in June 2018.

Lawson said he ate the tainted meat at a restaurant in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

An out-of-competition doping control test the next day indicated the presence of the exogenous anabolic androgenic steroid.

“The CAS Panel found it more likely than not that the origin of the prohibited substance was contaminated beef consumed in a restaurant the day before the test,” sport’s highest court said in a statement.

“Following a careful review and examination of the evidence and expert testimony… the panel was unanimously of the view that Lawson had established that he bore no fault or negligence for his positive finding.

“As a consequence of such finding, the period of ineligibility was eliminated.”

Lawson captured the long jump silver medal at the world championships in London three years ago.(Reuters/NAN)
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(Edited by Emmanuel Okara and Olawale Alabi)

 

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Russian curling medalist guilty of doping violation, CAS declares

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PyeongChang (South Korea)/Moscow, Feb. 22, 2018 (Reuters/NAN) Russian Olympic curler Alexander Krushelnitsky has been found guilty of an anti-doping violation after testing positive for the banned substance, meldonium, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said on Thursday.

CAS said the Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR) mixed doubles curling team, who won bronze at the Winter Games in Pyeongchang, had been disqualified from the competition over the violation.

Krushelnitsky, who won the medal with his wife, had accepted a provisional suspension beyond the period of the Games, according to the CAS.

The athlete had “reserved his rights to seek the elimination or reduction of any period of ineligibility” following the Games.

The announcement came hours after CAS cancelled the hearing into the case at the request of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the World Curling Federation and Krushelnitsky himself.

Dmitry Svishchev, president of Russia’s curling federation, said he hoped giving up the medal was a temporary measure.

“Unfortunately, we have to part with the Olympic bronze medal,” he said in a statement on the federation’s website. “I really hope and believe that this is temporary.”

The doping case has come at a delicate time for Russia, which has been accused of running a state-backed, systematic doping programme for years, an allegation Moscow denies.

Russians are competing at PyeongChang as neutral athletes, and Russia have been hoping that a clean record at the Games would enable it to return to full Olympic status.

Krushelnitsky and his wife Anastasia Bryzgalova, have agreed to surrender their medals, according to the Russian curling federation.

Russian Sports Minister, Pavel Kolobkov, said on Wednesday he hoped the Pyeongchang doping case would not impact the IOC’s deliberations on whether to let Russia regain full Olympic status.

The IOC has said it might allow the Russians to march with the country’s flag and in national uniform at the closing ceremony of the Games on Sunday.

However, they have to comply with the IOC’s code of conduct on neutrality.

The code requires compliance with IOC anti-doping rules.

The Russian Olympic delegation has said it could not explain how meldonium had ended up in Krushelnitsky’s body and pledged to investigate.(Reuters/NAN)
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(Edited by Kevin Okunzuwa and Olawale Alabi)