LOS ANGELES:
Raven Saunders, girls’s shot put runner-up on the Tokyo Olympics, has accepted a 30-month ban for 3 “whereabouts” failures inside 12 months, the US Anti-Doping Company introduced on Tuesday.
The 29-year-old American was fifth on the 2016 Rio Olympics earlier than capturing a silver medal in Japan and inserting eleventh in final 12 months’s Paris Olympics.
Saunders was a part of the US registered testing pool when incurred three failures to permit testing officers to know a location to permit for random doping assessments, the failures happening on April 19, 2024, Might 17, 2024, and December 26, 2024.
The interval of ineligibility for first whereabouts rule violations ranges from one to 2 years, however this was the second rule violation for Saunders and USADA decided a 30-month interval of ineligibility was applicable.
Saunders served an 18-month ban for 3 whereabouts failures from August 2022 to February 2024.
The most recent 30-month ban started on December 26, 2024, and Saunders was disqualified from all aggressive outcomes since then.
