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SPORTS Saturday 1 September 2018

In this Friday, March 2, 2018 file photo, United States' Jarrion
Lawson makes an attempt in the men's long jump final at the
World Athletics Indoor Championships in Birmingham, Britain.
Associated Press
American long jumper Christian Coleman, right, of the United States cross the finish line to place first in the men's 100m

Lawson tests positive during the Diamond League Memorial Van Damme athletics event at the King Baudouin stadium
in Brussels on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018.
Associated Press
for steroid Coleman sets season's fastest

MONACO (AP) — Ameri- Lawson was fourth in the
can long jumper Jarrion long jump at the 2016 time in 100 at Van Damme
Lawson, who won silver at Olympics and second at
last year's world champion- last year's world champion-
ships, has been suspended ships, finishing four centi- BRUSSELS (AP) — Christian his start and had to recover The reigning Olympic,
after failing a doping test. meters behind gold medal- Coleman became the to finish in 9.93 seconds. world, and European
The Athletics Integrity Unit, ist Luvo Manyonga of South fastest sprinter of the sea- Former world champion champion seemed ready
which handles doping is- Africa. Lawson also won son when he won the 100 Yohan Blake finished third. to coast to her seventh ti-
sues in track and field, the 100 meters, 200 meters meters in 9.79 seconds and Coleman is 22 and with his tle after she took the early
says Lawson tested posi- and long jump for the Uni- beat favored U.S. compa- win at the end of a strong lead at the Van Damme
tive for a metabolite of the versity of Arkansas at the triot Ronnie Baker to win the season, he establishes with 64.31 meters on her first
banned anabolic steroid 2016 NCAA track nationals. Diamond League trophy at himself as a new star who throw, but Perez hit back
trenbolone. Trenbolone helps build the Van Damme Memorial could shine at the world on her sixth throw with 65.
It didn't say when the posi- muscle mass and formed on Friday. championships in Doha, Also on her final throw, An-
tive sample was taken. part of a steroid cocktail Coleman set a personal re- Qatar, next year. dressa de Morais of Brazil
Lawson has been suspend- allegedly used by Russian cord despite a slight head- In a season without an took second place with
ed until a full disciplinary athletes at the 2014 Winter wind and easily won be- Olympics or a world cham- 64.65.
hearing. Olympics.q cause Baker totally missed pionships, the Diamond Perkovic said she had been
League stood out. "I got suffering from the flu for sev-
Gallopin dominates to win the trophy everyone was eral days, and complained
shooting for this season," the IAAF should not award
Coleman said.
the trophy based on one
seventh stage of Spanish Vuelta Colombian Caterine Ibar- day's performance.q
guen won the long jump at
the Diamond League finals,
POZO ALCON, Spain (AP) "I stayed in a good position legs, it was really hard. We one day after she took the
— French rider Tony Gal- and waited for the right have to take things day-by- triple jump title in Zurich to
lopin broke away in the fi- moment," Gallopin said. day, try to enjoy this jersey." assure herself of a $100,000
nal kilometers and held on "It's fantastic. To win ahead Molard holds a 47-second check for two days of work.
to win the seventh stage of riders like Sagan or Val- gap to Valverde going into She won the long jump
of the Spanish Vuelta on verde means something." Saturday's mostly flat eighth with a leap of 6.80 meters,
Friday, while countryman Molard was also in the stage that will take riders edging Shara Proctor by
Rudy Molard had another charging group that fin- 195.1 kilometers (121 miles) 10 centimeters. Each win in
solid run to maintain the ished five seconds off the from Linares to Almaden. a Diamond league final is
leader's red jersey. pace. Michal Kwiatkowski, who worth $50,000.
Gallopin had just enough "In the end it went well for wore the red jersey ear- Croatian discus thrower
to cross the line ahead of me," Molard said. "The fi- lier in the three-week race, Sandra Perkovic lost her
Peter Sagan and Alejandro nale suited my abilities, crashed with less than 10 hold on the Diamond
Valverde after the relative- I was feeling confident. kilometers to go, dropping League trophy after six
ly flat 185.7-kilometer (115- The pace was really high, further in the overall stand- years when she was de-
mile) route from Puerto anything could have hap- ings. He sits sixth, one posi- feated by Yaime Perez on
Lumbreras to Pozo Alcon. pened. Even with good tion behind Gallopin.q the Cuban's final throw of
the year-long competition.