{"id":795041,"date":"2019-04-21T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/swimmer-vergani-provisionally-suspended-for-cannabis\/"},"modified":"2019-04-21T16:48:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T22:48:00","slug":"swimmer-vergani-provisionally-suspended-for-cannabis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/swimmer-vergani-provisionally-suspended-for-cannabis\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimmer Vergani provisionally suspended for cannabis"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Swimming_Andrea_Vergani_77278-7681e.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Swimming_Andrea_Vergani_77278-7681e.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Swimming_Andrea_Vergani_77278-7681e-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption><strong>FILE &#8211; In this file photo dated Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018 bronze medalist Andrea Vergani of Italy poses on the podium of the 50 meters freestyle men final at the European Swimming Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. The Italian swimmer who posted the world&#8217;s best time in the men&#8217;s 50-meter freestyle this year has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for cannabis. (AP Photo\/Darko Bandic, FILE)<\/strong><br \/><em>AP | AP<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">ROME \u2014 The Italian swimmer who posted the world\u2019s best time in the men\u2019s 50-meter freestyle this year has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for cannabis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Nado Italia, the country\u2019s anti-doping body, says Andrea Vergani failed a test taken April 2 during the national championships in Riccione.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">During the same competition, he won the 50 free in 21.53 seconds \u2014 two hundredths faster than Vladimir Morozov\u2019s time at the Russian championships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The 21-year-old Vergani also won bronze medals in the 50 free at the European Championships and as part of Italy\u2019s 4\u00d750 free relay squad at the short-course worlds \u2014 both last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Vergani risks a ban of up to six months which could keep him out of the long-course worlds in Gwangju, South Korea, in July.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/swimmer-vergani-provisionally-suspended-for-cannabis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE &#8211; In this file photo dated Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018 bronze medalist Andrea Vergani of Italy poses on the podium of the 50 meters freestyle men final at the European Swimming Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. The Italian swimmer who posted the world&#8217;s best time in the men&#8217;s 50-meter freestyle this year has been provisionally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-795041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 19:43:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}