At home in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, Thiago Braz had the crowning moment of his career when he was crowned Olympic champion. In Tokyo in 2021, he took bronze. He was aiming for a third Olympic medal in Paris, but was suspended for 16 months for doping, until November 2024, after testing positive for ostarine, a banned substance that he says he inadvertently consumed through food supplements.
In a race against time to avoid missing the French event, he appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), which authorised him to jump on 29 June so that he would have the option of seeking the minimum required in the event that he was acquitted later. But the 30-year-old Brazilian did not achieve that minimum and did not qualify.
She cleared 5.65 metres that day. It was her first time competing since July 2023.
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Schwazer, a two-time bronze medallist at the 50km World Championships in race walking (2005, 2007) and European champion in the 20km in 2010, will not be taking part in the Paris Games.
The 38-year-old race walker was suspended for eight years, which was upheld by the CAS in August 2016, following a positive test for anabolic steroids in January of that year.
He had to serve his entire suspension, which ended on July 7, 2024, a few days after the deadline to qualify for Paris 2024.
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World record winner in the 10km road race in Valencia in 2020 and world bronze medallist in Doha in 2019, Kipruto was banned for six years for doping on June 5 by the AIU, which said his world record would be annulled.
The disciplinary body of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) also decided to annul all the results of the 24-year-old athlete between September 2, 2018, and May 11, 2023, the date of the start of his provisional suspension.
It is suspended until May 2029.
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Lawrence Cherono, fourth at the 2021 Tokyo Games and winner of the Boston and Chicago marathons in 2019, has been suspended by the AIU for seven years, until July 2029, for doping.
The 35-year-old long-distance runner, the 12th best marathon runner in history with a record of 2 hours 3 minutes 4 seconds in 2020, tested positive for trimetazidine, a drug essentially used to prevent angina during a test carried out outside of competition on May 23, 2022.
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The Ethiopian, a finalist in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and fourth at the Budapest World Championships in 2023, was suspended for five years after testing positive for two banned substances: EPO and testosterone.
At its judgment on 22 April 2024, the AIU ruled that the athlete was guilty of contravening anti-doping rules. Her suspension began on 20 October 2023 and will last until 19 October 2028. All her results since 22 August 2023 have been annulled.
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Already suspended for two years for three breaches of his obligations to be available for anti-doping controls, the current world runner-up in the 5,000 metres, the Spaniard Mohamed Katir, is also accused of “falsification” by the Athletics Integrity Unit, the anti-doping authority announced on June 12.
In mid-February, the 25-year-old Spaniard had already been suspended for two years after admitting the location-related errors he was accused of. He is now suspended until February 2026 and will not participate in the Olympic Games, where he was one of the favourites for medals.
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Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare, a speed specialist who is also competitive in long jump and triple jump, tested positive for human growth hormone. She was notified of the case at the Tokyo 2021 Games, which led to her exclusion from the Games.
In February 2022, she was found guilty of EPO doping, earning her a five-year ban, which was later raised to ten years by the AIU for “having falsified or attempted to falsify the doping control process.”
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24-year-old Jamaican sprinter Christopher Taylor, who won silver in the 4×400-metre relay with his country at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene, is serving a 30-month suspension, until May 2025, imposed by the AIU for breaching anti-doping rules.
He is particularly accused of having refused to submit to a sample being taken during a surprise check a year ago.
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Three-time Olympic champion Sun Yang saw his four-year, three-month ban for anti-doping rule violations end in May. It was too close for him to even think about qualifying for the Paris Games.
“For me, the Olympic Games are just another competition, and once they’re over, there will be other competitions,” he said.
Sun Yang was banned for destroying a blood sample taken during a surprise doping test at his home in September 2018 with a hammer. He was initially suspended for eight years, but his ban was reduced after an appeal to the CAS.
Sun Yang was the first Chinese swimmer to win Olympic gold, in the 400m and 1500m at the 2012 London Games. He also won 11 world titles between 2011 and 2019.
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‘Superman’ López, third in the Giro d’Italia and the Vuelta a España in 2018, was sanctioned with a four-year suspension for “violating anti-doping rules,” the International Cycling Union (UCI) announced in May.
The UCI’s own Anti-Doping Tribunal found that López had broken the rules “by using and possessing a prohibited substance (menotropin) in the weeks preceding the 2022 Giro d’Italia and imposed a four-year suspension period,” from July 25, 2023 to July 24, 2027.
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