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Edwards Knows Fate Today Dope World 100 meters champion Torri Edwards will learn today whether she can compete in the Athens Olympics after a positive dope test in April. A Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) panel will consider an appeal by the American sprinter against a two-year ban. The athletics program opens next Friday. Jamaican sprinter Steve Mullings will miss the Games after a positive test for the male sex hormone testosterone at the national championships in June. Mullings, who faces a two-year ban pending an appeal to the national federation, has not been included in the Jamaican team. Edwards, 27, was confirmed as world champion when her fellow-American Kelli White accepted a two-year ban after admitting taking several performance-enhancing drugs. But she in turn was banned for two years by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) last Wednesday after a positive test for the stimulant nikethamide at a meeting in Martinique last April. Edwards was scheduled to run in the 100 and 200 meters and was a certainty for the 4x100 meter relay squad. Pending the result of her appeal, she has been training with the U.S. team in Crete. After the positive test, Edwards said she had been given glucose tablets by her physical therapist who did not know they contained a banned substance. A U.S. arbitration panel concluded there could have been exceptional circumstances and referred the case to the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). The IAAF disagreed and its recommendation of a two-year ban was accepted by USADA. Edwards's place in the 100 meters has been given to twice Olympic gold medallist Gail Devers, who finished fourth at the U.S. trials. Three-times world 100 meters hurdles champion Devers won the gold medal in 1992 and 1996. U.S. collegiate champion LaShaunte'a Moore will run the 200. Who Are We ? | About THISDAYOnLine.com | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000 Leaders & Company Limited

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