LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — German cyclist Stefan Schumacher has given up his fight against disqualification from the Beijing Olympics for doping with the blood-booster CERA.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport said Tuesday that Schumacher withdrew his appeal against the sanction imposed last year by the International Olympic Committee.
Schumacher had traces of the banned drug in a blood sample analyzed months after the games using a new test. His Olympic results will be wiped from the records. He was 13th in the time trial and did not finish the road race.
Schumacher is serving a two-year ban from cycling after testing positive for CERA at the 2008 Tour de France. Under IOC anti-doping rules, that bars him from the 2012 London Olympics.
