13 Sep 2012

Process to reviewing shot putter's ban

11:59 am on 13 September 2012

The World Anti-Doping Agency says there is a process which must be followed before any appeal can be made against the one-year ban given to drug cheat Nadzeya Ostapchuk.

Ostapchuk received the one-year ban from the Belarus anti-doping agency after her coach Alexander Yefimov confessed to putting spiking Ostapchuk's food with a banned anabolic steroid.

WADA's director general David Howman says before his agency can make an appeal they must first wait on the International Association of Athletics Federations to review the investigation into Ostapchuk's ban.

Howman says the current WADA rule which allows for Ostapchuk's ban is currently under review.