(Reuters) – Canada’s show-jumping staff have been disqualified from the Tokyo Olympic Video games on Tuesday after the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport rejected an attraction of a doping violation.
Canada had regarded to have earned a spot on this yr’s COVID-19 delayed Olympics after putting fourth within the equestrian occasion on the 2019 Lima Pan Am Video games.
The staff, nevertheless, have been later disqualified after Nicole Walker’s in-competition take a look at was discovered to comprise the banned substance benzoylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine.
Walker, daughter of Belinda Stronach, president and chairman of The Stronach Group, stated she had inadvertently consumed the banned substance ingesting coca tea, a well-liked Peruvian drink.
Nonetheless, the Lausanne-based CAS dominated in opposition to Walker and Equestrian Canada after a listening to held by video on Dec. 21 and Dec. 23.
Walker was additionally stripped of her fourth place end within the particular person leaping competitors.
Equestrian Canada didn’t instantly reply when requested to remark.
As results of Canada’s disqualification, Argentina transfer up from fifth to fourth, claiming the ultimate Olympic berth from the staff competitors.
Canada will now be capable of ship just one leaping athlete to Tokyo to compete within the particular person occasion.
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