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Saturday, 14 October 2006 |
World triathlon champion Tim Don aims to overturn ban
World triathlon champion Tim Don is optimistic about overturning a ban and being able to compete at the 2008 Olympics.
English triathlete Tim Don, 28, was banned for three months for missing three out-of-competition doping tests in an 18-month period.
British Olympic Association rules state that Tim Don should be suspended from the Olympics, but he could be reinstated if there are mitigating circumstances, however, in his defense, Don, who did not miss the tests intentionally, said: "I'll be appealing against the Olympic suspension, 100%."
Tim Don has passed nine tests on separate occasions this year, but he fell foul of a new system in which athletes are required to update an online database saying where they will be available for testing for one hour per day at least five days a week, and f they are not where they say they will be when a doping control officer arrives, the incident gets reported as a missed test, three of which add up to an anti-doping rule violation.
Tim Don is not challenging his penalty against him for breaking this rule but he is hoping to use the example of Olympic 4x100m gold medallist Mark Lewis-Francis in order to make the Beijing Olympics.
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