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Olympic gold medalist Brianna Rollins has been suspended for year

Olympic gold medalist Brianna Rollins has been suspended for a year for failing to properly file whereabouts information for drug testing.

Rollins, the winner of the 100-meter hurdles in Rio, appealed to a three-member panel of arbitrators after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency notified her of the potential violation.

Two of the whereabouts failures occurred in September after Rollins won her Olympic gold. The panel recognized that the failures "were when she was travelling to have a parade in her honor in her home town in Florida and to celebrate 'Brianna Rollins Day,' and when she went to visit the White House to be feted by the President.