Swimming: Australia’s Fraser-Holmes To Fight ‘Whereabouts’ Ban

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australian Olympic swimmer Thomas Fraser-Holmes will appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to overturn a 12-month ban for missing anti-doping tests.

Athletes are required to file information on their whereabouts every day to allow drug testers to locate them for random out-of-competition tests.

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Fraser-Holmes, who won a 200 meters freestyle relay bronze at the 2015 world championships, had fallen foul of the ‘whereabouts’ rule and missed three tests, local media reported, citing the swimmer’s lawyer.

Swimming Australia confirmed world governing body FINA had banned the 25-year-old after a hearing.

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“We have been informed that Thomas Fraser-Holmes will be appealing the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, as is his right,” SA said in a statement on Friday.

Fraser-Holmes’s lawyer...