Published Thu, Mar 18 10 12:46 AM
British showjumper and four-times Olympian Michael Whitaker has had a ban from competing in the 2012 London Games lifted by the British Olympic Association (BOA).
The 50-year-old Whitaker was fined and suspended from competition for four months when his horse Tackeray tested positive for a banned substance at an event in France last May. Under a BOA byelaw, he was then automatically rendered ineligible to represent Britain at future Olympics.
The BOA said in a statement that his eligibility for selection had been restored on appeal because there were significant mitigating circumstances.
It said there was no evidence that Whitaker had deliberately administered the prohibited substance. Media reports said the drug was a hormone in a calming product which was permitted for mares and Whitaker argued that his stallion had been given the wrong food container.
Whitaker, a team silver medallist with his brother John at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, had to pull out of the last Beijing Games when his horse went lame.
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