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MonteCarloThe IAAF is pleased to announce that this afternoon the Panel of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected Justin Gatlin’s appeal. Had Gatlin succeeded he would have been eligible for competition at the summer Olympic Games in Beijing. The CAS Panel imposed a 4 year period of ineligibility.
This was Justin Gatlin’s second offence. The first was for a drug used to treat Attention Deficit Disorder, which Gatlin had taken unknowingly.
The result means that Justin Gatlin will not be re-eligible for competition until 25 July 2010.
IAAF President Lamine Diack said: “This result demonstrates the IAAF’s determination to remove the scourge of doping from our sport. We will fight as hard as necessary, and commit all the resources necessary to ensure that this is done. There is no place for doped athletes in our sport.”
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