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12/18/09 12:34 PM | Johan Lindahl
It took only hours for the irate International Tennis Federation to announce an appeal on the Court of Arbitration in Sport's exoneration of Richard Gasquet for a positive cocaine test.
The ruling cleared the former Wimbledon semifinalist of any fault or negligence in the affair, which Gasquet lawyers said stemmed from Miami nightclub kisses with an unidentified Frenchwoman.
Gasquet, who was tested in March, was given a ban of two months and 15 days by the anti-doping tribunal of the ITF.
The CAS decision on the Gasquet case marked the second setback this week for the ITF's authority in anti-doping control, after Belgians Yanina Wickmayer and Xavier Malisse were also cleared of failing to report whereabouts to drug testers.
That pair had been banned for a year but can now return to the sport.
"The ITF is disappointed with today's decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport to dismiss the ITF's and WADA's (World Anti-Doping Agency) appeal against the decision imposed on Richard Gasquet by an independent tribunal in July 2009," ITF president Francesco Ricci Bitti said in a statement.
The ITF and WADA appealed to CAS against the sentence, saying that he should be banned for between one and two years.
"The ITF has adopted the World Anti-Doping Code, which provides a right to appeal decisions made under rules pursuant to the Code, and the ITF and WADA have exercised their respective rights in this regard," added the Ricci Bitti statement.
"The CAS is the ultimate arbiter of such appeals and so the ITF must respect and abide by its decision. The ITF also recognises the potential implications of the CAS decision with respect to future decisions and will discuss these with WADA."
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