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Thursday, Jun 19, 2025
The 2008 Olympics long jump silver medallist tested positive for human growth hormone before the Tokyo Olympics.
Johnson won the final in a world record time 9.79 seconds, while Lewis took second place. However, Johnson's joy was shortlived as he was stripped of his gold medal after testing positive for the steroid stanolozol.
USA Track & Field declined to select Richardson to the relay team for the Olympic Games in Tokyo after she accepted a one-month ban for the prohibited substance, which she said she used to cope with the death of her mother.
It marks the second consecutive instance of an Indian wrestler being caught in dope net before the Olympics -- the previous being ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics when Narsingh Pancham Yadav had failed one and was slapped with a four-year ban.
In a wide-ranging interview with Italian sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport, Pope Francis recalled his own days playing soccer as a child with a ball made of rags and laid bare his scorn for doping cheats.
The positive test has come from the dope sample collected by the National Anti-Doping Agency in this Guwahati meet.
Athletes caught after August this year would be banned for two Olympic Games -- in Tokyo and Paris -- since they fall within the four-year sanction range.
According to the AIU's Twitter account, Thomas provided new evidence in June and as a result one of the missed tests cannot be established and so no anti-doping rule violation has been committed.
The ban handed down to Stevens has been backdated to begin on February 17, 2020, and will expire at midnight on August 16, 2021, eight days after the Tokyo Olympics conclude.
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