Olympic gold-winning hurdler Brianna Rollins-McNeal - a long time rival of Sally Pearson - could be banned for eight years after being provisionally suspended for an anti-doping violation, track and field's doping agency announced on Thursday.
Rollins-McNeal is the reigning 100-metre hurdles Olympic champion after winning in Rio, and in 2013 she became a world champion after beating 2012 London gold medallist Pearson in Moscow. United States' Brianna Rollins, left, gold, and Australia's Sally Pearson, silver, cross the finish line in the women's 100m hurdles final at the Moscow world championships in 2013.The Monaco-based Athletics Integrity Unit charged Rollins-McNeal, 29, with "tampering within the results management process" and provisionally suspended her from participating in competition before a final decision resulting from her tampering accusation.
Rollins-McNeal was suspended after she missed three drug tests the previous year. Her first strike came four months before the 2016 Olympic Games, when she missed a test that April.The next two came a month after she won the gold medal in Rio de Janeiro, where she led the first sweep by American women in any event and the first by any country in the history of the 100m hurdles.
Rollins-McNeal was disqualified before running at the 2019 World Championships in Qatar after a false start in qualification. Her time of 12.26 is tied as the fourth-fastest run in women's 100m hurdle history.Sport newsletter
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