Suspended until 17 December 2023 by the Court of Arbitration for Sport for an anti-dꦐoping vi🐲olation, there currently seems little hope of seeing Andrea Iannone back in the MotoGP World Championship.

The Italian will be 34 by the time he is el💧igible to race again, and having🌺 missed four seasons of competition.

But in answer to a question on Instagram, the former factory Ducati, Suzuki and Apri🍎lia rider replied: "I haven’t given up on the MotoGP. When the ti🐓me comes, I'll talk about it."

Iannone was initially handed an 18-month ban by the FIM for failing an anti-doping test a🐼t the 2019 Malaysian Motᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚoGP.

The #29 then apꦺpealed to the CAS, arguing that the source of the prohibited steroid Drostanolone was contaminated meat and the ♊ban should therefore be overturned.

However, WADA (The World Anti-Doping Agency) also launch💖ed an appeal, seeking an extended four-year ban on the grounds that Ianno✨ne 'failed to establish... that the origin of the prohibited substance [was] meat contamination.'

The CAS ultimately sided with WADA, declaring that Iannone committed an anti-doping violation on the grounds that he 'failed t🌳o establish neither the precise type of meat he had consumed nor the origin of said meat… Nor that there was an issue of m💯eat contamination by Drostanolone in Malaysia'.

Iannone, a MotoGP race winner for Ducati, could still have limited the💖 ban to a maximum of two years if he had been able to persuade the CAS 'on the balance of 𝐆probabilities' that the doping violation was unintentional.

🌞However, the CAS ruled Iannone had 'not been able to provide any convincing evidence🔯' that it was unintentional. As a result, his doping-violation was treated as intentional, meaning a full four-year ban.

Can Iannone appeal the CAS decision?

It's not clear what Iannone might have in mind, but according to the CAS website the only grounds o♚n which it is possible to appeal against a🧸 decision is as follows:

'Judicial recourse to the Swiss Federal Tribunal is allowed on a very limited number of grounds, such as lack of jurisdiction, violation of elementary procedural rules (e.g. violation of the right to a fair hearing) or incompatibility with public policy.'

Aprilia, which had been waiting for Iannone's CAS verdict before deciding on its 2021 rider line-up, will choose between test riders Bradley Smith 🌞and Lorenzo Savadori to ride alongside Aleix Espargaro this season.