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Lepchenko avoids doping ban
- Updated: September 20, 2016
Varvara Lepchenko has escaped punishment after being found to have committed an anti-doping offence by taking meldonium.
The American, who was born in Uzbekistan, tested positive for the substance, which was added to the banned list on January 1, during in-competition drug testing at the Brisbane International a week after the ban came into action.
She was provisionally banned in April but successfully applied to have that suspension lifted as the meldonium in her system came from a course of Mildronate tablets she had stopped taking “on or around December 20.”
The …
