Erriyon Knighton, a top American track and field star, is cleared to compete at the Olympics after testing positive for a banned substance from eating oxtails.
Knighton’s Olympic dreams hung in the balance after he tested positive for the anabolic steroid trenbolone during an out-of-competition drug test on March 26. On April 12, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) announced that the sprinter would be provisionally suspended pending an investigation.
The 20-year-old 2023 World Championship 200-meter silver medalist was able to avoid being banned from the U.S. trials after the USADA arbitration panel ruled on June 19 that the positive test was caused by contaminated oxtails from a bakery in Florida.
The ruling cleared…
