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Yeray Alvarez, a defender for Athletic Bilbao, has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for a banned substance found in a hair loss medication he was using to treat alopecia, which he claims was unintentional and related to his past testicular cancer diagnosis.
Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep has been cleared for an immediate return to tennis after the Court of Arbitration for Sport partially upheld her appeal and reduced her four-year ban to just nine months, which expired last July. The court accepted that a banned blood-boosting substance entered her body through the consumption of a contaminated supplement and awarded her 20,000 Swiss francs toward her legal fees. Halep had been serving a ban since testing positive for the banned substance roxadustat at the 2022 U.S. Open and denied wrongdoing, attributing the positive test to contaminated nutritional supplements.
U.S. Olympic long jumper Tara Davis-Woodhall had her national indoor title stripped and served a one-month suspension after testing positive for THC, the psychoactive compound found in marijuana. The penalty also includes the loss of the long jump title she won at indoor nationals shortly before the sample was collected on Feb. 17. THC is a special category of banned substance that allows for a three-month sanction if an athlete can establish their use of the substance occurred out of competition and was unrelated to sport performance.