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Modahl loses battle for damages
LONDON (AP) -- Former Commonwealth 800-meter champion Diane Modahl lost her battle in the Court of Appeal on Friday for 1 million pounds ($1.4 million) in compensation over a disputed doping ban. Modahl, 35, was seeking the money from the now defunct British Athletics Federation (BAF) over a drug ban imposed by the organization in June 1994. It was lifted independently a year later. Modahl, whose previous compensation case was turned down by a High Court judge in December last year, had taken her case to the Court of Appeal, alleging bias on the part of a disciplinary committee which imposed the four-year ban. Lord Justice David Latham said in a reserved judgment Friday that he could see no justification for saying that High Court judge Douglas Brown was wrong in acquitting the disciplinary panel of actual bias. He and Lords Justice Jonathon Mance and Jonathan Parker dismissed her appeal. Modahl, who won gold at the 1990 Auckland Commonwealth Games, was suspended by the BAF for four years after a drug test in 1994 allegedly showed a high level of testosterone in her system. The ban was lifted in July 1995 by the International Amateur Athletic Federation after doubts were cast over the accuracy of the tests. The BAF has since gone bankrupt and been superseded by UK Athletics. Modahl, who was not in court, said through her lawyers that she was not intending to appeal. "I do not intend to appeal further and now I can concentrate on my other activities," Modahl said. "This case was not about whether I was guilty of doping. I proved my innocence six years ago. It was about whether BAF should compensate me for what they had done."
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