US EditionOlympic sprinter Erriyon Knighton gets 4-year ban for positive test for anabolic steroid
- Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld a four-year ban on American sprinter Erriyon Knighton starting Friday, 2025-09-12.
- The ban follows a doping case from May 2024 involving the anabolic steroid epitrenbolone, with Knighton judged not at fault for its presence.
- Knighton argued the steroid came from contaminated oxtail meat, but CAS ruled the explanation lacked required proof and was statistically unlikely.
- The ban disqualifies Knighton's results retroactively from March 26 to April 12, 2024, and credits him for a provisional suspension served last year.
- The ban expires in early July 2028, effectively ruling Knighton out of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics despite his status as a two-time Olympic finalist.
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The silver medalist of the Budapest World Championships, Erriyon Knighton, was acquitted by the Americans, but the Court of Arbitration for Sport found the defense not scientifically sound.
Doping-Banned US sprinter Knighton punished for ‘choosing wrong restaurant’, says agent
By Rohith Nair (Reuters) -Erriyon Knighton’s agent labelled the American sprinter’s four-year ban for an Anti-Doping Rule Violation as a ‘travesty’ after the Court of Arbitration for Sport partially upheld appeals by World Athletics and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Knighton, a 200 metres world silver medallist in 2023, was charged with an ADRV in May 2024 when a doping test revealed the presence of Epitrenbolone, an anabolic steroid on W…
U.S. athlete Erriyon Knighton, a 200-meter double world medalist, has been disqualified four years by the Court of Sport Arbitration (TAS), which has partially estimated two appeals from World Athletics and the World Anti-Doping Agency (AMA) after the sprinter tested positive for doping in a check in May 2024 and the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) withdrew the initial sanction.
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