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Tuesday, 23 May 2006 |
Argentinean tennis player Guillermo Canas has drugs ban reduction
Argentinean tennis star Guillermo Canas has had a reduction in his two-year ban for failing a drugs test to 15 months after an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
Guillermo Canas, 28, will now be able to return to the sport on 10 September.
The CAS accepted Guillermo Canas had not knowingly taken a banned diuretic when he was given medicine by staff at the Mexican Open in February 2005 but the court noted he failed to check the product and therefore his negligence was "not significant".
Guillermo Canas was sentenced in August last year after he lodged an appeal with an independent Tennis Anti-Doping Program tribunal but though the CAS decided to reduce his ban it rejected his request for it to be overturned.
The panel said: "A mistake in the medication was made not by the player, but rather by the tournament staff.
"Canas took the medication he received without reviewing the content of the box, even though he knew it had been through several hands before being delivered to him.
"The player had a duty of utmost caution."
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