Former Olympic race walking champion Alex Schwazer is banned for eight years after losing another doping case days before he hoped to compete in Rio de Janeiro.
The Court oitaf Arbitration for Sport said Thursday it has imposed an eight-year ban on the 31-year-old Italian in a fast-track case after an appeal hearing held Monday.
Schwazer, the 2008 Olympic champion in the 50-kilometer walk, now misses a second straight Summer Games for doping.
He came to Rio seeking to overturn a provisional ban imposed last month by the IAAF governing body.
Days after Schwazer won the world championship in Rome in May, he tested positive for a steroid in further analysis of a sample given in January.
Schwazer briefly returned to competition after serving a three-year, nine-month ban for using EPO before the 2012 Olympics.
