Olympics-Athletics-SA race walker Shange out of Games after CAS upholds doping ban By Syndicated Content
By Mitch Phillips
TOKYO (Reuters) â South African race walker Lebogang Shange will not compete at the Tokyo Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld his four-doping ban on Friday.
In 2019 Shange tested positive for the banned anabolic steroid trenbolone, a drug used to promote muscle growth in cattle, and was given a four-year suspension.
The 30-year-old national record holder over 20km appealed against it, allowing him a window in June this year to compete where he secured qualification for Tokyo.
However, the ban was upheld by CAS, with the time served from December 2019 until June 21 included, meaning he can return to action in 2023.
Mitch Phillips
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TOKYO, July 23 (Reuters) - South African race walker Lebogang Shange will not compete at the Tokyo Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld his four-doping ban on Friday.
In 2019 Shange tested positive for the banned anabolic steroid trenbolone, a drug used to promote muscle growth in cattle, and was given a four-year suspension.
The 30-year-old national record holder over 20km appealed against it, allowing him a window in June this year to compete where he secured qualification for Tokyo.
However, the ban was upheld by CAS, with the time served from December 2019 until June 21 included, meaning he can return to action in 2023.
First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper.
After failing a doping test owing to “contaminated supplements”, top South African sprinter Carina Horn is still desperately trying to clear her name.
When she set foot on an athletics track for the first time since her provisional suspension for her positive dope test in 2019, Horn admitted to shedding tears during her warm-up jog because it had been 14 long months.
This was early December last year and said track was in Atteridgeville Township, about an hour’s drive from where the SA sprinter has been holed up in Pretoria since her provisional suspension because she wasn’t allowed to train at her usual facilities at the University of Pretoria.