The Court of arbitration for sport (TAS) announced Monday its rejection of the appeal by the Jamaican sprinter Steve Mullings, a refusal that has confirmed the suspension in perpetuity that imposed Jamaican anti-doping agency on November 22, 2011.

Mullings, component of the relay 4 x 100 of his country that won the World Cup in Berlin 2009 gold and silver in Osaka 2007, was suspended in perpetuity by recidivism of doping violation by a Commission of the Jamaican anti-doping agency formed by Lennox Gayle, Peter Prendergast football exarbitro and Dr. Japhet Ford.

The athlete had given positive for furosemide at the Championships national Jamaicans, in June 2011, once it had fulfilled another suspension in 2004 for two years for giving positive control anti-doping with testosterone. Mullings appealed to CAs on December 19 in a resource in which called for the cancellation of his punishment to life imprisonment, but the panel of the Court, made up of David w. Rivkin (USA), Christopher L. Campbell (USA) and Richard H. McLaren (CAN), rejected it and upheld his punishment.