LAUSANNE, Switzerland, July 13. THE Court of Arbitration for Sport announced today that it has scheduled its arbitration of FINA's appeal against Cesar Cielo, Nicholas dos Santos, Henrique Barbosa and Vinicius Waked as well as the Brazilian Swimming Federation for July 20. This appeal requests that the warnings the Brazilian Swimming Federation gave to the four swimmers after testing positive for the masking agent furosemide be changed to some period of ineligibility.
The CAS Panel will take place in Shanghai with some parties taking part via video conferencing. CAS has also promised that the hearing will last only half a day, and that deliberations and a final decision will be made by the end of July 22.
CAS officially states that FINA has requested that the warnings issued be replaced by a period of ineligibility and that the results achieved by the athletes from the date of sample collection (May 7, 8 at the Maria Lenk Trophy meet) until the commencement of the period of ineligibility be annulled.
The four Brazilian swimmers tested positive for furosemide at the Maria Lenk Trophy meet, but were only given warnings after claiming that the tests came from a contaminated supplement. The aftermath results in Santos and Barbosa both losing their Worlds qualifying times from Maria Lenk, while Cielo remained on the roster due to previous qualifying times. Waked had never made the World Championships roster.