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Whitaker free to compete at London 2012 Olympics

The Columbian
Published: March 18, 2010, 12:00am

LONDON (AP) — British showjumper Michael Whitaker has won an appeal against an Olympic doping ban and will be eligible to compete at the 2012 London Games.

Whitaker received a four-month ban after his horse, Tackeray, failed a drug test at a competition at La Baule, France, in May 2009. Under British Olympic Association rules, the doping suspension meant that Whitaker would not be allowed to compete at any future games.

But a BOA appeals panel has ruled that the 49-year-old Whitaker, who won a team silver medal in at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984, did not administer the banned substance and was not “personally negligent or at fault.”

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