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Sprinter Gil Roberts wins 'passionate kiss' appeal

American sprinter Gil Roberts, who took gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics in the men's 4x400 relay, won an appeal of his doping ban after a US arbitration panel agreed with his "passionate kissing" defence

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American sprinter Gil Roberts, who took gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics in the men's 4x400 relay, won an appeal of his doping ban after a US arbitration panel agreed with his "passionate kissing" defence. Roberts tested positive for traces of probenecid, a masking agent, and was suspended for four years last May, but an arbitrator overturned the ban last July, backing Roberts' claim that the positive test was caused by passionate kissing.

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