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Equestrian star banned for two years after positive cocaine test

Showjumper Jamie Kermond has been handed the maximum punishment of a two-year ban...

Adele Severs

Published 4 Mar 2022

Jamie Kermond was meant to compete at Tokyo 2020. © Michelle Terlato Photography



By Roy Masters

Jamie Kermond, the equestrian athlete whose positive cocaine test disrupted the Australian team at last year’s Tokyo Olympics, has been handed the maximum punishment of a two-year ban.

Sport Integrity Australia announced the sanction on Thursday for Kermond’s in-competition test, and Equestrian Australia chief executive Darren Gocher confirmed the sport had imposed the ban.

Kermond’s positive test during a three-day event a month before the Tokyo Games affected the other two members of the Australian jumping team, Edwina Tops-Alexander and Katie Laurie.

Read the full article published by The Age here. 

Read the full statement published by Equestrian Australia here. 

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