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17-08-2004, 05:03 PM
Edwards to learn fate tomorrow
August 17, 2004
By Gene Cherry in Athens
FOX SPORTS
WORLD 100m champion Torri Edwards will learn tomorrow if she will be able to compete in the Athens Olympics after a positive test for the stimulant nikethamide.
Waiting game ... Edwards / File
A Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) panel convened overnight to consider an appeal by the 27-year-old American against a two-year ban.
Officials said the independent body would consider the panel's findings and announce a decision tomorrow.
The athletics program begins at the Olympic Stadium this weekend after the men's and women's shot put finals at ancient Olympia two days earlier.
Edwards and her manager Emanuel Hudson entered the temporary CAS headquarters at an Athens hotel without speaking to waiting reporters.
She was confirmed as world champion when fellow-American Kelli White accepted a two-year ban after admitting taking several performance-enhancing drugs.
However, Edwards in turn was banned for two years by the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) last week after a positive test for nikethamide at a meeting in Martinique last April.
Edwards was scheduled to run in the 100m and 200m and was a certainty for the 4x100m relay squad.
Pending the result of her appeal, she has been training with the US team in Crete.
After the positive test, Edwards said she had been given glucose tablets by her physical therapist who did not know they contained a banned substance.
A US arbitration panel concluded there could have been exceptional circumstances and referred the case to the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
The IAAF disagreed and its recommendation of a two-year ban was accepted by USADA.
August 17, 2004
By Gene Cherry in Athens
FOX SPORTS
WORLD 100m champion Torri Edwards will learn tomorrow if she will be able to compete in the Athens Olympics after a positive test for the stimulant nikethamide.
Waiting game ... Edwards / File
A Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) panel convened overnight to consider an appeal by the 27-year-old American against a two-year ban.
Officials said the independent body would consider the panel's findings and announce a decision tomorrow.
The athletics program begins at the Olympic Stadium this weekend after the men's and women's shot put finals at ancient Olympia two days earlier.
Edwards and her manager Emanuel Hudson entered the temporary CAS headquarters at an Athens hotel without speaking to waiting reporters.
She was confirmed as world champion when fellow-American Kelli White accepted a two-year ban after admitting taking several performance-enhancing drugs.
However, Edwards in turn was banned for two years by the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) last week after a positive test for nikethamide at a meeting in Martinique last April.
Edwards was scheduled to run in the 100m and 200m and was a certainty for the 4x100m relay squad.
Pending the result of her appeal, she has been training with the US team in Crete.
After the positive test, Edwards said she had been given glucose tablets by her physical therapist who did not know they contained a banned substance.
A US arbitration panel concluded there could have been exceptional circumstances and referred the case to the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
The IAAF disagreed and its recommendation of a two-year ban was accepted by USADA.