Asafa and Simpson have their ban reduced.
12:14 pm, Mon July 14, 2014
By Kayon Raynor
Olympic and World Championship medalists Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson have had their 18 month drug bans reduced to six months by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS.
The ruling comes six days after the sprinters’ appeal took place in New York between July 7 and 8.
"The CAS decided to reduce their period of ineligibility to 6 months, which has been already served. The athletes were already free to compete since 18 June 2014 after the CAS had granted a stay of the decisions of the Jamaica Anti-doping Disciplinary Panel of 8 and 10 April 2014," A releae from CAS said Monday morning.
12:14 pm, Mon July 14, 2014
By Kayon Raynor
Olympic and World Championship medalists Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson have had their 18 month drug bans reduced to six months by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS.
The ruling comes six days after the sprinters’ appeal took place in New York between July 7 and 8.
"The CAS decided to reduce their period of ineligibility to 6 months, which has been already served. The athletes were already free to compete since 18 June 2014 after the CAS had granted a stay of the decisions of the Jamaica Anti-doping Disciplinary Panel of 8 and 10 April 2014," A releae from CAS said Monday morning.
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