Sprinter Erriyon Knighton gets 4-year ban for positive test for anabolic steroid

Lausanne: Two-time Olympic finalist Erriyon Knighton was banned for four years on Friday in a doping case of an anabolic

steroid that almost certainly rules the 21-year-old United States sprinter out of the 2028 Los Angeles Games.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport said its judges upheld separate appeals by the World Anti-Doping Agency and track and field investigators which asked for a maximum four-year ban after he was cleared by a tribunal in the US.

CAS said the ban that starts Friday is cut for the more than two months of a

provisional suspension Knighton served last year. The ban should expire in early July 2028, just days before the LA Olympics open.

Knighton had been cleared last year to run at the Paris Olympics when

he was judged not at fault for a positive test for trenbolone, a steroid used in livestock farming.

The US Anti-Doping Agency prosecuted Knighton’s original case and accepted the “no-fault” ruling based on the explanation he was contaminated by oxtail from a bakery in central Florida.