American sprinter Erriyon Knighton confronted a difficult journey main as much as the Paris 2024 Olympics Video games after testing constructive on March 26 for a metabolite of trenbolone throughout an out-of-competition drug take a look at. Initially granted a no-fault violation in June by the U.S. Anti-Doping Company (USADA), Knighton was allowed to compete on the U.S. Trials and the Paris 2024 Olympics within the males’s 200m. Now, Knighton faces one other investigation into his case by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), which has launched an attraction on USADA’s ruling to the Courtroom Of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), regardless of the sooner clearance.
The AIU has filed an attraction with the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport within the case regarding Erriyon Knighton (USA). pic.twitter.com/Drepr3OAAj
— Athletics Integrity Unit (@aiu_athletics) August 14, 2024
The USADA’s earlier ruling mentioned that Knighton was not required to serve any interval of ineligibility after testing constructive for a trenbolone metabolite. An arbitrator decided that his constructive take a look at was seemingly attributable to consuming meat contaminated with trenbolone, which is a identified livestock progress promoter used legally in beef cattle produced in and exported to the U.S., concluding that Knighton had no vital fault or negligence relating to the presence of trenbolone in his system.
U.S. sprinter Erriyon Knighton’s Olympic goals keep alive after doping suspension lifted
Trenbolone is a non-specified substance within the class of anabolic brokers and just like testosterone, each of that are prohibited below World Athletics Anti-Doping Guidelines. Trenbolone builds muscle and quickly strips fats, nevertheless it additionally comes with a litany of opposed unwanted side effects.
The AIU notified Knighton and USADA of the attraction to the CAS on Aug. 8, which coincided with the boys’s 200m closing on the Paris Olympics, the place he positioned fourth behind Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo and his two American compatriots, Kenneth Bednarek and Noah Lyles. Knighton additionally completed fourth within the males’s 200m in Tokyo 2020, when he was 17.
Knighton has been probably the greatest 200m sprinters on this planet over the previous 4 years. The 20-year-old was not in a position to compete in 2024 (earlier than the Olympic Trials) after the U.S. Anti-Doping-Company (USADA) handed down a provisional doping sentence on April 12. Knighton holds the U18 and U20 world report within the males’s 200m, having run 19.69 seconds on the 2022 U.S. Monitor and Discipline Championships. At solely 20, he’s a two-time world championship medallist within the occasion. He additionally holds the fifth-fastest 200m time in historical past at 19.49 seconds.
