American sprinter Justin Gatlin faces a 8 year ban for Track & Field because of an April drug test that returned positive for testosterone. This is the second time Gatlin has been caught for illegal drugs in his system. The ban came into effect on 15 August, and if the ban is not overturned or reduced at the arbitration hearing, Gatlin's ineligibility would run through July 24, 2014.
The world and Olympic champ said he still did not know how the testosterone got into his system and that he was hoping for a favorable outcome from arbitration. His first offense was a result of amphetamines which were in a medicine he had been taking for 10 years to control attention-deficit disorder.
Gatlin becomes the second American to lose the 100m world record because of a doping offence.
Tim Montgomery was banned from the sport for two years in 2005 based on evidence from the Balco doping scandal, and his 2002 record time of 9.78 seconds was expunged.
Gatlin has agreed to co-operate with USADA to eradicate drugs in sport.
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