The Court of Arbitration for Sport said its judges found
Onana was not at significant fault and reduced his one-year ban by UEFA. The
ban now ends on Nov. 3.
The ruling could see Arsenal step up its reported interest
in signing Onana, who is cleared to play for Cameroon at the African Cup of
Nations in January.
Onana tested positive last October for furosemide, a banned
diuretic often used as a masking agent to hide the presence of other drugs.
He said he was feeling unwell and took a pill prescribed for
his girlfriend from a packet he mistook for aspirin “because the packaging was
almost identical.”
Anti-doping rules make athletes liable for banned substances
in their body, though they can argue they were not at fault nor negligent. -AP