A shocking piece of news has come to light that gymnast Oleg Verniaiev will not play Tokyo Games because he has been banned on Tuesday following a banned drug test. He tested positive for the banned substance meldonium and was banned by the Gymnastics Ethics Foundation, which hears disciplinary cases in the sport.

Verniaiev said the GEF “decided that the concentration of meldonium found in my body is sufficient to ban me for four years” and that the ban is backdated to run from November 2020. That could also rule him out of the 2024 Olympics in Paris.

Verniaiev denies this and said he will appeal to CAS. “The main question is how banned substances got into my body?” he wrote. “Why did it happen at a time when there were no serious international competitions and there was only light training taking place?”

Rio de Janeiro Olympics of 2016 will be remembered for his game who won a gold medal competing with world level players. Since then, his competitive appearances have been limited by injuries and now his ban has resulted in ruling out the Olympics.

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