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The Latest: 2008 Olympic race walking champ gets doping ban

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Latest on the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local):

7:20 a.m.

Former Olympic race walking champion Alex Schwazer is banned for eight years after losing another doping case days before he hoped to compete in Rio de Janeiro.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport said Thursday it has imposed an eight-year ban on the 31-year-old Italian in a fast-track case after an appeal hearing held Monday.

Schwazer, the 2008 Olympic champion in the 50-kilometer walk, now misses a second straight Summer Games for doping.

He came to Rio seeking to overturn a provisional ban imposed last month by the IAAF governing body.