Athletics: Walker Schwazer loses appeal, banned for eight years

Schwazer previously served a three-and-a-half-year suspension after admitting to using the blood booster erythropoietin (EPO) in 2012.

Schwazer asked CAS to treat his appeal as an urgent request ahead of the Rio Olympics but this was dismissed and sport’s highest court instead initiated an expedited arbitration procedure to rule on the case.

“All competitive results obtained by Alex Schwazer from and including 1 January 2016 are disqualified with all resulting consequences, including forfeiture of medals, points and prizes,” CAS said in a statement.

(Reporting by Sudipto Ganguly in Mumbai- Editing by John O’Brien)