Hondo's attorney questions four-year ban

By Susan Westemeyer

Danilo Hondo's attorney, Michael Lehner, has said that he does not find a four-year ban to be legally possible, in case his client is ruled to have used illegal doping. Lehner said that the ban "would be equivalent to banning him from his profession" and would mean "practically the end of the career" of the 31 year-old Hondo. "This kind of sentence has already been found to be unacceptable in various cases, such as that of [German track sprinter] Katrin Krabbe," he said.

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