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Article: ATHS: Gatlin seeks arbitration hearing on dope charges
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- February 16, 2007
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AAP Sports News (Australia)
02-16-2007
ATHS: Gatlin seeks arbitration hearing on dope charges
By Gene Cherry
RALEIGH, North Carolina, Feb 15 Reuters - Olympic 100 metres gold medallist Justin
Gatlin has requested an arbitration hearing on doping charges against him, the US Anti-Doping
Agency (USADA) and Gatlin's attorney said today.
The American faces a ban of up to eight years after testing positive for the male sex
hormone testosterone and its precursors at a Kansas meet in April. He has denied knowingly
taking any banned substance.
"When Justin Gatlin accepted a positive test and a doping offence (in August), part
of the agreement was that he had the right, if he chose, to challenge ...