Canoeing: Sprinter banned for 8 yrs for sabotaging rival's doping test

One of Japan's top sprint canoeists has been banned from competition for eight years for spiking a younger rival's drink with an anabolic steroid, causing him to fail a doping test, the Japan Anti-Doping Agency said Tuesday.The Japan Canoe Federation will recommend at a board meeting to be held around March to permanently ban the canoeist, 32-year-old Yasuhiro Suzuki, from competition considering the severe punishment handed down by JADA, federation officials said.The incident occurred at the national canoe sprint championships last September in Komatsu, Ishikawa Prefecture, where Suzuki an…READ FULL ARTICLE