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Pan Pacs 4x100m freestyle champion Gabriel Santos will miss the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020 after FINA increased an eight-month suspension to 12 months following his positive drugs test.
It was announced last month that Santos had tested positive for Clostebol, a synthetic androgenic steroid with anabolic effects.
According to Brazil’s Globo Sport, Santos was tested on 20 May in Sao Paulo and following the report of his violation he was automatically banned from the World Championships currently being held in Gwangju, South Korea, and the Pan-American Games in Lima, Peru.
An eight-month ban was initially imposed but a FINA doping panel chaired by Australian Peter Kerr issued a review that instead increased it to 12 months. The suspension began on 19 July 2019 and will run until 20 July 2020, one week before the start of the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Should Santos, who competed at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, decide to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, he will have 21 days to do so.
Another consequence of the confirmation and upgrading of Santos’ ban is that he will no longer be able to compete in the International Swimming League as a member of DC Trident. The ISL has a zero-tolerance policy on drugs.
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He just should have smashed the vials and thrown a hissy fit..seems to work for others?♂️?♂️?♂️
Sung Yung the best..
Bozjidar Bogdan who. Sun ‘lance Armstrong’ Yung? Cheating git!
Bozjidar Bogdan one too many hits there, apparently…
Taff Jones yes like other swimmers…don’t be a fool if you believe some one is clean…
Leave sun yung alone
And Sun Yang walks away!
Jack Martin And your prove please!
Yanjing Wang his behavior by itself is proof. Stop making excuses for cheaters.
Jack Martin exactly
Yang’s destruction of the vial with a hammer and his previous positive test are evidence that he has no respect for the doping regulations.
Yanjing Wang Old sunshine should not even be competing he broke the rules when he smashed the vile He should be banned nobody else gets away with doing that
Cheaters…go home!! Well done! And…What about the ???
Should be a lifetime ban, and that should apply to all drug cheats.
Yet they let men claiming to be women compete.
12 months? So cheaters get a time-out. Hardly a deterrent.
And they want the. Hines guy to be banned for life simply because they have failed to beat him ever since he made his debuts
He should have smashed his blood vial
Just a year….that’s almost like saying its OK. The residuals benefits are in your system for life.