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British show jumper Michael Whitaker has won an appeal against an Olympic doping ban and will be eligible to compete at the 2012 London Games.
Whitaker received a four-month ban after his horse, Tackeray, failed a drug test at a competition at La Baule, France, in May 2009. Under British Olympic Association rules, the doping suspension meant that Whitaker would not be allowed to compete at any future games.
But a BOA appeals panel has ruled that the 49-year-old Whitaker, who won a team silver medal in at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984, did not administer the banned substance and was not ``personally negligent or at fault.''
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