Respondent Walter Davis is a 34-year old athlete and member of USA Track & Field.
The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has reported an anti-doping rule violation against Respondent after he failed to file his whereabouts information on three separate occasions between 1 July 2012 and 1 July 2013.
After notice Respondent waived his right to be heard for Tribunal and didn’t filed a statement in his defence.
During the preliminary hearing in January 2014, the Respondent admitted that he failed to timely submit his whereabouts information and claimed that there was no violation due to he had retired from competition. Respondent did not provide any evidence to substantiate this claim.
USADA stated that Respondent was still compelled to report his whereabouts and neither USADA nor USATF received a retirement notice from Respondent. Also USADA showed that Respondent continued to submit whereaubouts information to USADA on an intermittent basis until August 2013, more that a full year after Respondent claims he retired.
Considering the evidence, the Arbitrator of the North American Court of Arbitration for Sport (NACAS) decides to impose a 1 year period of ineligibility on the Respondent, starting on 16 April 2014 and ending on 15 April 2015.
Consequently, all competitive results, medals, points and prizes obtained by Respondent on or subsequent to 1 July 2013, the date of his third whereabouts failure, are hereby cancelled with retroactive effect.
