"However on Friday the court of arbitration for sport rejected Knighton's defence. A press release said: There is no proof that would support the conclusion that oxtail imported into the USA would be likely to contain trenbolone residues at the level required to have caused the athlete's adverse analytical finding. As a result the star, who finished fourth in the men's 200m at the Paris Olympics, was banned until 2029."
"On Friday Cas also ruled that the Welteji, who is the third fastest woman in the world over 1500m this year, would be ineligible to compete in Tokyo while she awaited a ruling on a drug-testing case. Welteji, the 2023 world 1500m silver medalist, was initially cleared by Ethiopia's national anti-doping agency after refusing to take an out-of-competition drug test without justification on 21 May."
Two elite track athletes have been sidelined by anti-doping rulings ahead of major competition. Erriyon Knighton, 21, received a four-year ban after the Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected his claim that contaminated imported oxtail caused a trenbolone positive, finding no proof to support that conclusion; Knighton is suspended until 2029. Knighton previously won 200m world medals in 2022 and 2023 and finished fourth at the Paris Olympics. Diribe Welteji, 2023 world 1500m silver medalist and among the season's fastest, was declared ineligible to compete in Tokyo while a drug-testing case is adjudicated after appeals by the Athletics Integrity Unit and World Athletics.
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