Richard Gasquet Cleared to Return

by FanHouse NewswireFiled under: ATPLONDON (AP) -- Richard Gasquet escaped a lengthy doping ban Wednesday when the International Tennis Federation ruled that he inadvertently took cocaine. The 23-year-old Frenchman, who was cleared to resume playing after completing a 2 1/2-month ban Wednesday, convinced an independent anti-doping tribunal that he ingested cocaine by kissing a woman he met at a nightclub in Miami.The tribunal panel of three lawyers said Gasquet consumed no more than "a grain of salt" of the drug, and a long ban would be an injustice in a case which was "unusual to the point of being probably unique."Richard Gasquet Cleared to Return originally appeared on Fanhouse Tennis on Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:29:00 EDT . Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments