The CAS reduces the sanction for doping of the Bolivian footballer Boris Céspedes by nine months

The Court of Arbitration for Sports TAS This Monday, he announced a decision that could be a precedent in the future for other players by partially upholding the appeal presented by the Bolivian soccer player. Boris Cespedes for a doping sanction. The CAS has reduced the punishment initially imposed for FIFA; and also takes into account the time of provisional suspension completed until yesterday.

Boris Céspedes is an international professional footballer with Bolivia who then played for the Yverdon-Sport FC of the Swiss Super League. On March 25, 2025, he tested positive in a test after the Bolivia-Uruguay match played at the El Alto Municipal Stadium. Stadium, located 4000 meters above sea level. The player did not play that game because he was not feeling well.

On August 7, 2025, the FIFA Disciplinary Commission sanctioned the player for two years for doping when traces of acetazolamide were found in his sample, a substance prohibited by the LOVE. Already then he took into account the time of sanction that until then he had served since May 14 of that same year. The player decided to file an appeal with the CAS on October 3, 2025, defending that it was a product that the national team gave him that day to combat altitude sickness.

Appeal resolved yesterday with the consequent reduction. So on the 14th he will have completed eleven of the fifteen months of disqualification and will be able to return to activity on October 14 of this same year.