The American double world medalist over 200m, was checked positive last year at a prohibited substance. He had not qualified at the Tokyo Worlds.
US sprinter Erriyon Knighton, a double global medalist over 200 m, was suspended for four years after being checked positive last year at a prohibited substance, the Arbitral Sports Tribunal (CAS) announced on Friday.
Seized by the World Anti -Doping Agency and World Athletics, the TAS invalidated the decision taken in June 2024 by an American arbitration court, which had laundered the athlete by accrediting the thesis of food contamination.
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Bronze medalist from the 2012 Worlds and Silver from the 2012 Worlds, the 21-year-old sprinter was tested positive on March 26, 2024 at Epitrenbolone, an anabolic steroid, during an out-of-competition control.
He had been temporarily suspended from April 12 to June 19, 2024 – a period deduced from his four -year sanction, specifies the TAS -, before successfully invoking involuntary contamination by consuming beef.
4th at the Paris Games
A great hope of American athletics, Knighton had been able to play the Paris Olympics, taking 4th place in the 200 m, before the World Anti -Doping Gendarme and World Athletics appealed by demanding a four -year suspension.
After the hearing in Lausanne on June 23 and 24, the TAS arbitrators estimated “that there was no evidence” establishing that “the beef tail imported in the United States would be likely to contain Trenbolone residues at the required level” to provoke positive control, according to the jurisdiction press release.
The sprinter, who had not managed to qualify for the Tokyo Worlds, is also “disqualified retroactively from March 26, 2024 to April 12, 2024”, specifies the TAS.
