COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — U.S. sprinter Wallace Spearmon has received a three-month suspension for using a banned substance at a meet earlier this summer.
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency determined Spearmon was not trying to enhance his performance by taking a medicine used to treat asthma and allergies, but that he failed to apply for a therapeutic-use exemption before using it.
Spearmon told Track and Field News: “I was not trying to cheat. I made a mistake.”
The 29-year-old American has won a silver and two bronzes in the 200 metres at the world championships, as well as a gold as a member of the U.S. 4×100 relay team at Osaka in 2007.
Spearmon’s suspension is retroactive to Aug. 27.