Jamaican athlete Dominique Blake has doping ban reduced
Jamaican athlete Dominique Blake has had her six-year ban for doping offences reduced to four-and-a-half years.
Last Updated: 05/05/14 5:18pm
The 400m runner was sanctioned by the Jamaica Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel in June last year after a positive test was taken during the London 2012 Olympic trials - the second of her career.
Blake, 26, who believed the original ban to be excessive, had an appeal to the Jamaican panel turned down in September 2013 and therefore decided to take it to the CAS.
And the disciplinary body said in a statement on Monday that they reached the decision "in view of some mitigating factors" before adding that "the athlete has failed to establish that she bears no significant fault or negligence".
Blake tested positive for the banned stimulant methylhexanamine, used as she finished sixth in the 2012 Olympic trials, and she did not appear at the Games despite being picked for the women's relay team.
She had previously been banned for nine months for using ephedrine in 2006.
