SAN FRANCISCO -- Tim Montgomery will go to an international arbitration panel to contest a possible lifetime ban sought by U.S. doping officials. Montgomery's legal team informed the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency of its decision Monday to appeal to the Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport.
An American sprinter barred from competing at the 2012 London Games because he took a steroid found in a male enhancement product could be eligible to defend his 400-meter Olympic title after the U.S. Olympic Committee petitioned the highest court in sports. LaShawn Merritt is awaiting a "definitive ruling" from the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on the heels of a request Wednesday by the USOC and the International Olympic Committee to offer clarity on a controversial IOC regulation that prohibits an athlete who receives a doping sanction greater than six months from appearing in the next Olympics.
From wire reports LaShawn Merritt, the reigning 400-meter Olympic champion from Portsmouth, has won his case with the Court of Arbitration of Sport and will be allowed to compete in the 2012 Olympics provided he makes the U.S. team, according to media reports Wednesday.
The final step in the Floyd Landis doping case will take place in New York, America's most expensive city, and once again, American taxpayers will foot part of the bill. The 2006 Tour de France winner, who was stripped of his victory last year, seeks to have his title restored by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. It's the final step in a series of appeals that have cost upward of $2 million, a good portion of which has been paid for with federal funds.
Floyd Landis will make his final appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in New York next week in an effort to regain the 2006 Tour de France title he lost because of a positive doping test. The hearing that begins March 19 is expected to last six days. Dog sledding
Early Monday morning, an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland came to a decision: Nick and Samantha Jinadasa will not play in this week's Badminton World Championships. Nick, a 2003 Poly graduate, and sister Samantha, who finished at Poly last year, had filed for arbitration in an effort to secure a mixed doubles Worlds berth based on their No. 59 world ranking at the time the 64 places in the competition were drawn up. But their claim to join what ended up being a 52-team draw was denied, based largely on the fact that USA Badminton did not support the claim when the Jinadasas and an American men's doubles team first brought it to the court.
Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius of South Africa is known as the Blade Runner because he wears carbon-fiber prosthetic limbs during competition. Now, thanks to a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the world's top sports regulatory body, Pistorius might be in Beijing competing with able-bodied athletes in the Olympic Games.
PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Banned sprinter Justin Gatlin wants to defend his 100-meter Olympic title in Beijing. He might have to go through Pensacola, Atlanta and even Switzerland first. The International Olympic Committee said Gatlin, whose four-year doping ban recently was upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, is not eligible to compete in the Beijing Games, regardless of any ruling by a federal court judge in Pensacola. Should he wish to appeal this CAS decision, he must do so before the Swiss Federal Court," wrote IOC director of legal affairs Howard Stupp in the letter dated June 23 that was filed with the court.
General: Gold decision today Two months after Paul Hamm won the men's all-around title at the Athens Olympics, the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland, will announce at 8 a.m. CDT today whether the gold medal stays with him or goes to a South Korean gymnast who claims it should be his.
DENVER (AP) -- USA Taekwondo filed a protest Friday with the Court of Arbitration for Sport, seeking changes in the sport's judging protocols in the wake of American Steven Lopez's disputed quarterfinal loss in the Beijing Olympics. The federation's CEO, David Askinas, said the appeal was not designed to overturn results but to shine a light on "the internal problems in our sport.
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