Paul Pogba’s four-year doping ban was shortened to eighteen months following his Court of Arbitration for Sport appeal being granted.
Paul Pogba, the midfielder for Juventus, was given a four-year ban in March for a doping offense. The 31-year-old had been scheduled to stop playing football in August 2027. Pogba tested positive for dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) one month prior, and as a result, he was temporarily suspended in September 2023.
In the opening match of the 2023–24 season, Pogba tested positive for dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA). He is free to resume playing for Juventus in March of the following year.
In March of last year, the World Anti-Doping Code’s normal four-year ban was granted by Italy’s National Anti-Doping Tribunal (TNA) upon the Anti-Doping Prosecutor’s Office request. Pogba would not have resumed playing football until March 2027 as a result.
Pogba’s €5,000 (£4,179) fine has been suspended, and on Monday, CAS will formally declare the suspension to have been lowered.
A four-year anti-doping ban can be reduced in circumstances where an athlete can establish it was not purposeful, was the result of contamination, or if they can provide “substantial assistance” to help investigators.
Read the genesis of his ban here…
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