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Doping walker Alex Schwazer handed eight-year ban for second offence
- Updated: August 11, 2016
Italian race walker Alex Schwazer will miss the Rio Olympics and serve an eight-year ban after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected his appeal against a second doping suspension.
Schwazer, 2008 Olympic 50km walk champion, has already served a 45-month suspension after testing positive for erythropoietin (EPO) in 2012 before the London Olympics.
The 31-year-old was provisionally suspended by the IAAF on July 8 after he returned a sample taken on January 1, 2016, and retested in May, which tested positive for traces of the anabolic steroid testosterone.
A statement issued by CAS read: “The CAS sanctioned him with an eight-year period of ineligibility starting on the date of today, less any period of provisional …
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