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CAS Upholds Four-Year Doping Ban on Sprinter Issamade Asinga

Arbitrators ruled his Gatorade gummies explanation did not meet the balance-of-probabilities standard.

Overview

  • The court confirmed he remains ineligible from May 2024 with credit for a provisional suspension dating to August 2023, keeping him sidelined through May 2028.
  • Asinga tested positive for metabolites of the banned substance GW1516 in an out-of-competition control in July 2023.
  • The panel found he failed to prove the gummies were contaminated and that his violation was unintentional, so no reduction for No Fault or Negligence applied.
  • The Athletics Integrity Unit imposed the four-year sanction in May 2024 and stripped his 9.89-second Under-20 100-meter result from the 2023 South American championships.
  • Arbitrators reported finding nothing to suggest the gummies contained anything stronger than sugar.