Australian athlete receives four-year doping ban

Australian baseballer Jason Sloan has been banned for four years.

Baseball Australia handed down the suspension after detecting the presence of a prohibited substance.

Sloan, who plays for the Canberra Cavalry in the Australian Baseball League, had tested positive to a metabolite of Boldenone.

Boldenone is banned under the WADA code as a class of Anabolic Androgenic Steroids. It is not approved for human use.

Mr Sloan will not contest the sanction.

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