Ysaora Thibus faced a four-year ban from competition after WADA contested her claim of contamination through kissing.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has overturned French Olympic fencer Ysaora Thibus’ four-year suspension for doping, ruling that her positive test for a banned substance was caused by kissing her then-boyfriend,

French Olympic fencer Ysaora Thibus was cleared of a doping allegation on Monday because the judges accepted she was contaminated by kissing her American partner over a period of nine days. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruling echoed a verdict clearing another French athlete with a similar defense in a doping allegation—tennis player Richard Gasquet in the celebrated “cocaine kiss” case in 2009.