MONTREAL—An anti-doping panel has cleared top Canadian canoeist Laurence Vincent Lapointe to return to training and competition ahead of her sport’s Olympic debut this summerThe panel convened by the International Canoe Federation made the decision after it accepted that the 11-time world champion did not knowingly take ligandrol. Vincent Lapointe, 27, was provisionally suspended for having trace amounts of the drug in an out-of-competition doping test conducted July 29. She was subsequently suspended and was not able to compete at the 2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, which also doubled as a Tokyo 2020 Olympic selection event. Lapointe and her lawyer, Adam Klevinas, attended a hearing before the ICF’s Doping Control Panel in Lausanne, Switzerland, to present their case in December. YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN...Women’s sprint canoe will be in the Olympics for the first time this summer in Tokyo.

Source: thestar January 27, 2020 13:52 UTC