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Friday, 16 February 2007 |
Olympic 100m champ Justin Gatlin requests a hearing
Olympic 100m champion Justin Gatlin has asked for an arbitration hearing to look into the matter of the doping charges against him.
Justin Gatlin, 25, tested positive for testosterone at the Kansas Relays in April 2006 and could be banned for as much as eight years, although he said he did not know how a banned substance entered him.
Justin Gatlin had initially accepted he was in violation of the doping rules so he could go on to challenge the length of the ban and his lawyer John Collins explained: "Justin looks forward to demonstrating he never knowingly violated any anti-doping rules."
The date for the arbitration hearing hasn't been given so far but US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) rules state that a hearing is to be held no later than three months after the panel for one has been chosen.
Justin Gatlin also failed a doping test in 2001 when amphetamines were found in his samples but it was found that prescribed medicine he was on to control attention-deficit disorder was the reason the drug was found.
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