Gomathi Marimuthu might have become an overnight star with her gold-winning effort at the recently-concluded Asian Athletics Championship in Doha but she is completely focussed now on qualifying for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
CAS rejects Dazza and Marimuthu appeals against four-year doping bans Saturday, 8 May 2021
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has rejected appeals from El Mahjoub Dazza and Gomathi Marimuthu against their respective four-year doping suspensions.
Morocco s Dazza and Indian athlete Marimuthu were both banned in 2020 by the Athletics Integrity Unit, but appealed against their sanctions to the CAS.
Dazza was eighth in the men s marathon world rankings before being provisionally suspended in January last year following the detection of anomalies in his athlete biological passport.
Subsequently, Dazza was given a four-year period of ineligibility.
Appealing to the CAS, Dazza argued that procedural infringements had been committed and that altitude training, combined with high air temperatures, were responsible for his haemoglobin level rising and reticulocytes concentration falling.