Hardy linked to supplement company

From The New York Times: olympics.blogs.nytimes.com/.../ July 30, 2008, 3:39 pm Possible Friday Ruling on U.S. Swimmer Hardy’s Drug Test Appeal By Karen Crouse Jessica Hardy is expected to have her appeal of a positive doping test heard in the next two days in Los Angeles, with a ruling possible as early as Friday. Hardy, a 21-year-old swimmer from Long Beach, Calif., tested positive for clenbuterol at the United States Olympic Swimming Trials in Omaha earlier this month. She qualified for the team in the 100-meter breaststroke –- an event in which she holds the American record — the 4X100 freestyle relay and the 50 freestyle. Hardy was tested for performance-enhancing drugs after each final at the trials. The results of her samples taken on July 1 and July 6 were negative. Her sample after the 100 freestyle on July 4 was positive. While declining to give a specific timetable, Hardy’s attorney, Howard Jacobs, said on Wednesday that her case “is certainly going to be resolved in time so that if she’s exonerated she’ll have time to compete.” Hardy’s appeal will be heard by an American Arbitration Association arbitrator. If the arbitrator should rule against her, Hardy can appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. She has remain sequestered in Southern California this week, half a world removed from the rest of the U.S. Swim team, which traveled last weekend to Singapore, its final pre-Games base. The swimming competition at Beijing opens Aug. 9. Hardy’s first event, the 100 breaststroke, is Aug. 10.

From The New York Times: olympics.blogs.nytimes.com/.../ July 30, 2008, 3:39 pm Possible Friday Ruling on U.S. Swimmer Hardy’s Drug Test Appeal By Karen Crouse Jessica Hardy is expected to have her appeal of a positive doping test heard in the next two days in Los Angeles, with a ruling possible as early as Friday. Hardy, a 21-year-old swimmer from Long Beach, Calif., tested positive for clenbuterol at the United States Olympic Swimming Trials in Omaha earlier this month. She qualified for the team in the 100-meter breaststroke –- an event in which she holds the American record — the 4X100 freestyle relay and the 50 freestyle. Hardy was tested for performance-enhancing drugs after each final at the trials. The results of her samples taken on July 1 and July 6 were negative. Her sample after the 100 freestyle on July 4 was positive. While declining to give a specific timetable, Hardy’s attorney, Howard Jacobs, said on Wednesday that her case “is certainly going to be resolved in time so that if she’s exonerated she’ll have time to compete.” Hardy’s appeal will be heard by an American Arbitration Association arbitrator. If the arbitrator should rule against her, Hardy can appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. She has remain sequestered in Southern California this week, half a world removed from the rest of the U.S. Swim team, which traveled last weekend to Singapore, its final pre-Games base. The swimming competition at Beijing opens Aug. 9. Hardy’s first event, the 100 breaststroke, is Aug. 10.