Britain's national javelin champion Blair suspended for doping

LONDON, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- Joanna Blair, who won the women's javelin title at last year's British Athletics Championships, has been provisionally suspended after failing an anti-doping test.

Blair, who recorded a personal best of of 57.44m, represented Britain at the European Athletics Team Championships in Lille this summer but failed to make the British squad for the World Championships in August.

Blair is accused of breaching International Association of Athletics Federations' anti-doping rule, article 2.1, which concerns the "presence of a prohibited substance or its metabolites or markers in a sample".