PARIS :”Tunisian Wrestler Guenichi Barred from Paris 2024 Due to Doping Ban”, Tunisian wrestler Amine Guenichi has been ruled out of the Paris 2024 Olympics after being handed a four-year doping ban by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), a Tunisian federation official told Reuters on Wednesday.
Guenichi won the gold medal at the Arab Games last year in the men’s Greco-Roman 130kg category.
“Guenichi was banned for deliberately not complying with anti-doping testers,” the Tunisian federation technical director Montaser Obaidi told Reuters.
“Last November, the testers came to his room at the elite training centre and he refused to open his door and after several hours only provided them with a urine sample, which returned negative.
Obaidi added that Guenichi was then handed a provisional four-month suspension and the 25-year-old took part in a Olympic qualifying tournament in Egypt, where he punched his ticket for Paris 2024.
However, WADA appealed against the lifting of the ban to CAS, Obaidi said. WADA could not immediately confirm.
CAS were not immediately available for comment.
