POSTED: December 18th 2008
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FIFA World Cup dope ban
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT / Sports Features Communications
ZURICH: A player who failed a World Cup dope test has been banned for five months by the world football federation. Liberia’s Melvin King tested positive for a glucocorticoid after the qualifying tie away to Senegal on June 21.
A glucocorticoid is a medication noted by the World Anti-Doping Authority since its use requires a formal exemption, which King did not possess. Penalties range from a warning to a two-year ban.
The start of the five-month ban imposed has been back-dated to October 2 when King was initially suspended.
A two-year ban was imposed on Italy’s Eduardo Carlos Morgado Oliveira who failed a test after the third-place play-off against Russia at the Futsal World Cup in Brazil on October 18.
He tested positive for the two major metabolites of the synthetic anabolic androgenic steroid nandrolone. These are prohibited substances with WADA. The ban is timed from the past November 6 when Morgado Oliveira was provisionally suspended.
Keywords · FIFA · World Cup · dope test · WADA · Melvin King · Liberia · Futsal World Cup · Morgado Oliveira
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