Rio De Janeiro, July 5 -- Brazilian striker Gabriel Barbosa has won an appeal against a two-year ban in a doping rules case, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said.
Barbosa, known as Gabigol, was suspended by a Brazilian sports tribunal in March 2024, when he was playing for Flamengo.
The CAS allowed him to continue playing pending the appeal's outcome.
"Two of the toughest years of my life, being unfairly accused of something I never did," Barbosa
said in a statement on Friday.
"No prohibited substance was found, but they still wanted to punish me for an alleged attitude.
Justice was done. But the wound stays," he said.
The 28-year-old allegedly ignored an initial request to present a urine sample during a random visit ...