LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) The Court of Arbitration for Sport has overturned a Russian runner's two-year doping suspension because her sample was retested beyond the eight-year statute of limitations.
Thursday's ruling means Tatyana Andrianova will be able to keep the bronze medal she won in the 800 meters at the 2005 world championships in Helsinki.
Andrianova's doping sample was retested in 2015 and came back positive for the steroid stanozolol, leading to a two-year ban and the disqualification of her results between August 2005 and August 2007.
However, CAS ruled that 2013 should have been the cutoff for any disciplinary proceedings based on the eight-year statute in place at the time.
The case is a blow to the IAAF, which had argued that it could act based on a 2015 ruling that increased the statute to 10 years.
