Football: Paul Pogba Doping Case
In the Paul Pogba Doping Case, on which we briefly reported previously on the SLT website, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has now published its reasoned Award (CAS 2024/A/10443 Paul Pogba v. NADO Italia) for reducing the period of ineligibility of four years and quashing the financial penalty imposed on the football player.
The three-member Panel, having concluded that the anti-doping rule violation, committed on 22 August 2022, was not intentional and, therefore, the maximum period of ineligibility should be two years, then dealt in some detail with the question of whether any of the Fault-related reductions applied in this case.
The Panel decided that an ineligibility period of 18 months was the appropriate sanction.
Having decided on such period, based on no significant fault or negligence, the Panel determined that there was no room for any ancillary penalty, and, therefore, quashed the sanction of €5,000 imposed on the football player.
The full Award can be accessed at: https://www.tas-cas.org/en/jurisprudence/recent-decisions.html.
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