List of sportspeople cleared of doping charges

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The following is an incomplete list of sportspeople cleared of doping offences by their sports governing body. The reasons for clearance range from technical errors in the doping test process (e.g. procedure not followed, laboratory errors) to outright pardoning from the national body for the sport. In other cases, athletes may be cleared if the banned substance was taken for purely medical health reasons.

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List of cleared athletes

Name Country Sport Reason for clearance Reference
Shoaib Akhtar  Pakistan Cricket Tested positive for nandrolone, but was pardoned by national federation [1]
Lance Armstrong  United States Cycling Accused in 2004 of using EPO in 1999 TDF but not sanctioned. [2]
Mohammad Asif  Pakistan Cricket Tested positive for nandrolone, but was pardoned by national federation [3]
Daniel Bailey  Antigua and Barbuda Athletics Doping reports were dismissed as false [4] (Swedish)
Rutger Beke  Belgium Triathlon Found not guilty [5]
Jay Cutler  United States Bodybuilding Tests were thrown out as it failed to follow correct procedure [6]
Simon Daubney  New Zealand Yachting Cleared of charges that he knowingly took cocaine or any other banned substance. [7] [8]
Tomáš Dvořák  Czech Republic Athletics Alleged intravenous infusions, but drugs tests were negative [9]
Marc Farry  France Golf Found to have legitimately have taken Prednisolone, which had been prescribed by his doctor for tendinitis of the wrist. [10]
Udi Gal  Israel Sailing Was accused using Finasteride. Because Gal declared using an anti-balding medicine consisting Finasteride, he was only rebuked. [11]
Richard Gasquet  France Tennis Tested positive for cocaine use, but was later cleared of charges when it was determined to be a result of kissing a woman who had been using it [12]
Josep Guardiola  Spain Football (soccer) Was suspended for nandrolone use, but cleared of charges many years later [13]
Vincent Guérin  France Football The test, while positive for nandrolone, was technically incorrect [14]
Christian Hoffmann  Austria Cross-country skiing Doping charges dismissed [15]
Vegard Høidalen  Norway Beach volleyball Found guilty of not revealing his whereabouts, but later cleared [16] (Norwegian)
Mark Hylton  United Kingdom Athletics Ban for nandrolone was rescinded due to errors in processing the sample
Benoît Joachim  Luxembourg Cycling The test, while positive for nandrolone, was technically incorrect [17]
Ágnes Kovács  Hungary Swimming Excused for her irregular behavior in doping test [18]
Bernard Lagat  Kenya Athletics Negative B sample for EPO. [19]
Silken Laumann  Canada Rowing Tested positive for pseudoephedrine, but this had been prescribed to her by doctors [1]
Iban Mayo  Spain Cycling 1. Cleared by the International Cycling Union
2. Negative B sample, cleared by national federation, but not yet by the International Cycling Union		 1. [20]
2. [21]
Antonio McKay  United States Athletics Three-month ban for positive test for stimulants overturned by panel of national governing body [2]
Michael Mifsud  Malta Football Unknown person ordered drugs to Mifsud's postal address [22] (Norwegian)
Diane Modahl  United Kingdom Athletics The test, while positive, was technically incorrect [23]
Stanislavs Olijars  Latvia Athletics [24]
Alessandro Petacchi  Italy Cycling Tested positive for salbutamol, but had a medical certificate for the substance [25]
Uta Pippig  Germany Athletics Suspended for two years but settlement determined ban was not legally justified. [26]
Daniel Plaza  Spain Race walking Cleared his name through a legal battle [27]
Ross Rebagliati  Canada Snowboarding Disqualified for marijuana use, overturned since marijuana was not a banned substance at the time [28]
Mark Richardson  United Kingdom Athletics Tested positive for nandrolone but then proved that testing for the substance was faulty as he delivered a positive test in a controlled environment. [3]
Michael Rogers  Australia Cycling Suspected as a teammate tested positive, but found to have no involvement in the case [29]
Greg Rusedski  United Kingdom Tennis [30]
Jaysuma Saidy Ndure  Norway Athletics Presence of banned substance cannabis was unintended and unknowing [31] (Norwegian)
Roman Šebrle  Czech Republic Athletics Alleged intravenous infusions, but drugs tests were negative [32]
Gilberto Simoni  Italy Cycling Tested positive for cocaine, but was later cleared of charges [33]
Kristina Šmigun  Estonia Cross-country skiing Negative B sample for 19-norandrosterone [34]
David Solga  Germany Football Tested positive for methylpseudoephedrine, but the team doctor took the blame [35]
Andreas Strand  Norway Football Presence of banned substance cannabis was unintended and unknowing [36] (Norwegian)
Marko Strahija  Croatia Swimming Tested positive for human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), but subsequently diagnosed with testicular cancer, of which hCG is a marker [37][38]
Marina Trandenkova  Russia Athletics Tested positive for Bromantane at the 1996 Olympics. Cleared by CAS, because the banning of the substance was not announced in advance.
Gareth Turnbull  Northern Ireland Athletics Presence of banned substance was unintended and unknowing [39]
Anita Valen  Norway Cycling Tested positive for caffeine, but was later cleared of charges [40]
Ine Wigernæs  Norway Cross-country skiing Tested positive for caffeine, but was later cleared of charges [41]
Olga Yegorova  Russia Athletics The test, while positive for EPO, was technically incorrect [42]

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.canoe.ca/SlamNaganoSnowboarding/feb11_ross5.html
  2. ^ McKay's Ban Halted on Appeal. Los Angeles Times (1990-05-30). Retrieved on 2010-11-12.
  3. ^ Richardson, Mark (2004-02-19). 'It was as daunting a line-up as I had ever faced on athletics tracks'. The Guardian. Retrieved on 2010-11-13.

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