Canada’s jumping team has lost its appeal to regain a place in the Tokyo Olympics. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) gave an urgent ruling last night, dismissing appeals by Nicole Walker and Equestrian Canada against her disqualification from the 2019 Pan American Games team jumping competition in Lima, after failing a dope test.

Walker tested positive for metabolites of cocaine which she believed to have come from drinking a local coca tea, popular in South America.

Without Walker’s scores in Lima, Canada slipped out of the final Olympic qualification place, which instead went to Argentina.

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