Toure escapes with six-month ban for failed drugs test |
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London, May 27 ANI: Manchester City defender Kolo Toure has escaped with a six-month ban for his failed drugs test and will be able to play again just three weeks into the new season on September 2. Toure, 30, can consider himself lucky as according to World Anti-Doping Agency regulations he could have faced a two-year suspension. The Ivory Coast star admitted: "I am relieved. This has been a difficult period for me. I am sad to have missed the team's triumph of securing Champions League football and also the FA Cup victory." "But I am relieved I will be able to return to football in September and thank the FA's commission for their understanding," The Sun quoted him, as saying. Toure tested positive for a specified substance after the Manchester derby on February 12 when he was an unused substitute. Claims that Toure took some of his wife's slimming pills were backed up by the findings. The commission believed "he did not intend to enhance sporting performance or to mask the use of a performance-enhancing substance." ANI Posted by aniin on Saturday May 28 reply Comments |
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