1.   But in mid-August, after Hall had missed the Goodwill Games and U.S. Senior Nationals, FINA suspended the ban while it was reviewed by its doping panel.

2.   He has said he is innocent of violating FINA regulations and had asked FINA to give him a hearing before its doping panel.

3.   A FINA doping panel on Thursday ruled Smith was guilty of tampering with an out-of-competition urine test taken at her Kilkenny home in January.

4.   A FINA doping panel ruled Smith was guilty of tampering with an out-of-competition urine test taken at her home in Kilkenny in January.

5.   A FINA spokesman said the doping panel would proceed with or without the presence of Smith.

6.   A three-member doping panel of USA Track and Field cleared Mitchell in December.

7.   An ACB doping panel chaired by operations manager Richard Watson reached the decision at a meeting in Melbourne on Wednesday.

8.   Arne Ljungqvist, head of the IAAF doping panel, suggested this week that the world body could step in and impose its own ban.

9.   But he said that view was not upheld by the FINA doping panel, which ruled it as a first offense.

10.   But Mitchell was cleared on appeal in December after putting his defense to a three-member USATF doping panel.