Jones receives 2-year ban for refusing test (AP)

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP)—Bobsledder Randy Jones, who won a silver medal inthe 2002 Olympics, has been dangling for dual years for refusing to take anout-of-competition doping test.

Jones declined to yield a sample upon Jan. 26, as well as a U.S. Anti-DopingAgency voiced a anathema upon Monday.

“I regret which my failure to assimilate a manners led me to exclude toprovide a sample when requested because we suspicion we could state which we wasretired as well as yield early retirement office work later,” Jones, 40, of Mabelton, Ga.,said in a USADA’s release.

“I right away assimilate which it is every athlete’s responsibility to yield asample when requested to do so unless which contestant has formerly retired andcompleted a compulsory early retirement paperwork.”

Jones, whose anathema started Saturday, teamed with Todd Hays, Bill Schuffenhauerand Garrett Hines to finish second in a four-man foe in a Salt LakeCity Olympics.

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