{"id":18977,"date":"2024-06-22T12:30:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T12:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/gil-roberts-us-sprinter-given-eight-year-doping-ban\/"},"modified":"2024-06-22T12:30:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T12:30:56","slug":"gil-roberts-us-sprinter-given-eight-year-doping-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/gil-roberts-us-sprinter-given-eight-year-doping-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Gil Roberts: US sprinter given eight-year doping ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">United States athlete Gil Roberts has been handed an eight-year suspension after testing positive for banned substances for a second time.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An out-of-competition test taken by Roberts in September detected multiple banned substances including ostarine, which boosts muscle growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2022, Roberts, 35, was given a 16-month ban after testing positive for ostarine and andarine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/athletics\/40613013\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">avoided suspension in 2017<\/a> after he was found to have ingested probenecid &#8211; a banned diuretic and masking agent &#8211; by kissing his girlfriend, who was taking medication containing the drug for a sinus infection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The US Anti-Doping Agency&#8217;s chief executive officer Travis Tygart said it was important to &#8220;apply the full force of the rules&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All athletes deserve a level playing field so that their hard work and talent are rewarded,\u201d Tygart said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Roberts was a member of the United States&#8217; gold medal-winning 4x400m relay team at the Rio 2016 Olympics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/c1336z2e8r0o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States athlete Gil Roberts has been handed an eight-year suspension after testing positive for banned substances for a second time. An out-of-competition test taken by Roberts in September detected multiple banned substances including ostarine, which boosts muscle growth. In 2022, Roberts, 35, was given a 16-month ban after testing positive for ostarine and andarine. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18979,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18977\/revisions\/18979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}