UPDATE 5-Doping-Gasquet confirms positive test for cocaine

Sun May 10, 2009 7:32pm BST
 
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* Gasquet confirms positive test for cocaine

* B sample also positive, he says

* Says hair sample test showed no traces of cocaine

(Adds French federation president, ITF reactions)

By Julien Pretot

PARIS, May 10 (Reuters) - French tennis player Richard Gasquet tested positive for cocaine at a tournament in Miami last month, the world number 23 said on Sunday.

"The B sample test from March 2009, during the Miami tournament, in which I did not take part, confirms the positive results from the A sample," he said in a statement read out on French radio RTL.

Gasquet said he had a hair sample tested by an independent lab "which showed no trace of cocaine".  Continued...

 

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