{"id":45573,"date":"2020-07-15T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2652874"},"modified":"2020-07-15T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T06:00:00","slug":"banned-olympic-medalist-maria-guadalupe-gonzalez-loses-appeal-now-charged-for-false-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/15\/banned-olympic-medalist-maria-guadalupe-gonzalez-loses-appeal-now-charged-for-false-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Olympic medalist Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez loses appeal, now charged for false evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MONACO — Olympic race walk silver medalist Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez lost her appeal against a four-year ban for doping and faced new charges on Tuesday for using false evidence.<\/p>\n

The Athletics Integrity Unit published a ruling from the Court of Arbitration for Sport which dismissed an appeal this month by the 20-kilometer walk runner-up at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.<\/p>\n

Gonzalez blamed her positive test for the anabolic steroid trenbolone in 2018 on contaminated meat in tacos. Steroids are used in cattle farming in her native Mexico.<\/p>\n

In a written statement to her original disciplinary hearing, she cited false details of the meat she had eaten. Athletes who prove how they ingested a doping product can avoid a ban.<\/p>\n

Gonzalez “expressly accepts that she lied and presented and relied upon fabricated documents” in an apology to the CAS panel, the appeal ruling stated.<\/p>\n

The AIU, which prosecutes cases in track and field, said it now “charged the athlete with a second violation for tampering.”<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old race walker, better known as Lupita Gonzalez, is banned into November 2022 and faces a further ban for the new charge.<\/p>\n

Gonzalez will keep her silver medals from the 20-kilometer walk at the 2016 Olympics and the 2017 world championships in London.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n