{"id":6060,"date":"2020-05-19T10:53:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T14:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drealfmgrenada.com\/?p=6060"},"modified":"2020-05-19T10:53:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T14:53:16","slug":"olympic-runner-taplin-banned-4-years-for-evading-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drealfmgrenada.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/19\/olympic-runner-taplin-banned-4-years-for-evading-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Runner Taplin Banned 4 Years For Evading Test"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) \u2014 Olympic runner Bralon Taplin lost his appeal against a four-year ban for dodging a doping test and will miss next year\u2019s Tokyo Games and the next two track world championships.<\/p>\n

The Court of Arbitration for Sport said Tuesday it found Taplin\u2019s explanation \u201cto be implausible\u201d that he was never approached or chaperoned to give a sample after winning an April 2019 race in Grenada.<\/p>\n

The CAS judge \u201cwas comfortably satisfied that the athlete was guilty of the offense of evading sample collection,\u201d\u00a0the court said<\/a> in a statement.<\/p>\n

The\u00a028-year-old Taplin<\/a>, a former NCAA relay champion for Texas A&M who competes for Grenada, has been banned until Sept. 24, 2023.<\/p>\n

Taplin finished seventh in the 400 final at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, and he is the eighth fastest man on the\u00a0all-time list<\/a>\u00a0in the indoor 400.<\/p>\n

CAS upheld a ruling by the Caribbean anti-doping organization. It found Taplin was told by a chaperone during track-side media interviews in Grenada that he was needed to give a sample.<\/p>\n

The Florida-born athlete\u2019s defense was \u201che had not been properly notified that he had been selected for the doping control test,\u201d the court said.<\/p>\n

The CAS statement said Taplin \u201csubsequently left the stadium (and) on the following day, he took an early flight home and left the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

He will miss major meets in each of the next three years: The postponed Tokyo Olympics in 2021, the worlds in Eugene, Oregon, also postponed one year to 2022, and the 2023 worlds in Budapest, Hungary.<\/p>\n

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More AP sports:\u00a0https:\/\/apnews.com\/apf-sports<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP_Sports<\/a><\/p>\n

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