Swimming-Fujimori's appeal to reduce two-year doping ban dismissed by CAS
ByReuters
Published 06/03/2020 at 12:26 GMT
March 6 (Reuters) - Japanese swimmer Hiromasa Fujimori's appeal against the length of his doping ban has been dismissed, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said on Friday.
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Fujimori was banned for two years by the international swimming federation (FINA) after testing positive for the banned substance Methylephedrine.
The 28-year-old had requested for the sanction to be reduced, arguing that he had eaten "potentially contaminated rice balls" the day before the test.
CAS said in a statement that he had "failed to establish a plausible source to the presence of the prohibited substance in his sample."
As a result, Fujimori will serve the full two-year ban which started on Jan. 1 2019.
Fujimori won two bronze medals at the 2018 World Championships and was a silver medallist at the 2014 Asian Games. (Reporting by Rohith Nair in Bengaluru Editing by Toby Davis)
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