American Olympic swimmer Michael Brinegar has been handed a four-year ban for blood doping.
The United States Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) said Brinegar, 24, had irregularities between July to September 2022 found in his Athlete Biological Passport.
It said the highly “abnormal blood values” were “caused by blood doping”.
An independent arbitrator had cleared Brinegar of the violation but Usada appealed against the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which has issued the ban…