CAS rules British player out of London Paralympics

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - British wheelchair basketball player Simon Gibbs will miss the 2012 London Paralympics after losing an appeal against a two-year ban for testing positive for the party drug mephedrone.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport says Gibbs couldn't prove that a friend spiked his drink with the banned stimulant in February 2010 when it was widely known as “legal ecstasy.”

CAS rejected the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation's appeal that the ban imposed by Britain's anti-doping authority was too harsh.

A British appeal panel upheld the sanction but suggested “a few months” was appropriate.

CAS says the World Anti-Doping Code allows reduced penalties for certain substances only when athletes prove how they ingested it.