Brianna McNeal: Olympic champion banned for five years for breaking anti-doping rules
Olympic 100m hurdles champion Brianna McNeal has been given a five-year ban from athletics for breaking anti-doping rules.
An Athletics Integrity Unit disciplinary tribunal found McNeal guilty of "tampering within the results management process".
McNeal, 29, won gold at the 2016 Rio Games and was world champion in 2013.
The American has appealed against the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).
The appeal will be heard before this summer's Tokyo Games and McNeal is still able to compete until the end of the US Olympic Team Trials on 27 June.
The judgement was made at the end of April but has only now been released, while the ban is backdated to 15 August 2020.
McNeal was provisionally suspended in February, though she said in a social media post ...