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  • Cesar Cielo gets off with a warning

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    The Court of Arbitration for Sport today upheld a decision by the Brazilian swimming federation to impose the minimum penalty – a warning – after Cesar Cielo, Nicholas dos Santos and Henrique Barbosa tested positive for a banned diuretic in May. Fourth swimmer Vinicius Waked has been served with a suspension for one year, since…

  • CAS will decide on Cielo and the others on July 22

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    The Court of Arbitration for Sport announced today that it has scheduled it arbitration of FINA’s appeal against Cesar Cielo, Nicholas dos Santos, Henrique Barbosa and Vinicius Waked as well as the Brazilian Swimming Federation for July 20 in Shanghai, partially via video conferencing. They promise that it will take only half a day, and…

  • FINA appeals César Cielo and the others’ doping case

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    FINA has decided to appeal before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) the decisions of the Doping Panel of the Brazilian Aquatic Sports Confederation, in the matters of positive doping tests to the substance Furosemide for the swimmers César Cielo Filho, Henrique Barbosa, Nicholas Santos and Vinicius Waked. The athletes are presently not suspended…

  • Barbosa and Santos removed from Brazil’s World Champonship roster

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    In conjunction with their positive doping tests, which resulted in the loss of results from the Maria Lenk Trophy meet, Henrique Barbosa and Nicholas Santos have been removed from the Brazilian World Championships roster. Vinicius Waked did not make the team, so he is naturally missing as well, and now only Cesar Cielo remains, having…

  • Something’s rotten in Brazil: This wasn’t Waked’s first offence

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    FINA will press for an urgent CAS appeal before pool racing at the Shanghai 2011 World Championships begin on July 24, if current investigations conclude that Brazil was wrong to issue only warnings to Cesar Cielo, Nicholas Santos, Henrique Barbosa and Vinicius Waked for testing positive with furosemide. Especially Waked’s case looks suspicious, if the…

  • César Cielo tests positive for masking agent

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    At the Maria Lenk Trophy in May, 4 Brazilian athletes including Olympic and world champion César Cielo tested positive for furosemide, a diuretic banned because it can mask the use of doping products. The Brazilian doping control panel decided that only a warning was necessary because the swimmers have never produced a positive test before…