LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The Court of Arbitration for Sport confirmed Monday it has overturned a four-year ban imposed on American long jumper Jarrion Lawson for a positive doping test caused by eating beef containing steroids.
The 2017 world championship silver medalist had announced Friday he could return to competition almost 20 months after his last event.
Lawson was unanimously cleared by three judges of any fault for the positive test, the court said. The judging panel included Richard McLaren, who led investigations into the Russian doping program.
The reason traces of an anabolic steroids were found in a June 2018 sample was “more likely than not that the origin of the prohibited substance was contaminated beef consumed in a restaurant the day before the test,” the court said.