'A three-member arbitration panel from the International Court of Arbitration for Sport has unanimously rejected the appeal of American Tyler Hamilton, upholding his two-year suspension for a blood doping violation at the 2004 Vuelta a España. Hamilton was found guilty of blood doping after samples submitted after this Vuelta time trial on September 11, 2004 indicated the presence of another person's blood. The three arbitrators also ruled that Hamilton's two-year ban should have been effective from the date of his initial suspension (September 23, 2004) rather than on the date a North American hearing panel confirmed his penalty (April 17, 2005). That change may mean that Hamilton could return to the top level of the sport as early as this fall, just two days before the world road championships...' More
