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Canada finished fourth in the Pan Am Games in Lima, Peru to qualify for Tokyo, but the disqualification of Walker's scores dropped the team to seventh. Walker tested positive for a cocaine metabolite, which the 27-year-old from Aurora, Ont., says she inadvertently ingested by drinking coca tea. Canada will be able to enter just one horse and rider in the individual event in Tokyo. The Court of Arbitration for Sport based in Lausanne, Switzerland heard joint appeals from Walker and Equestrian Canada on Dec. 21 and Dec. 23. CAS announced its decision Tuesday and said in a statement that reasons...

Donna Spencer Canada's Nicole Walker rides Falco van Spieveld, during the Grand Prix event of the National at Spruce Meadows in Calgary, Saturday, June 8, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh December 20, 2020 - 8:29 AM The reinstatement of Canada's show jumping team in the Tokyo Summer Olympics rides on upcoming appeals to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Nicole Walker and Equestrian Canada are battling her doping violation at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. Her appeal is before the Swiss-based CAS on Monday and Wednesday. Walker argues she inadve...