Mariano Hood suspended for a year

Argentina's Hood has been suspended one year for doping.

Hood, 32, tested positive for a masking agent, finasteride, after a doubles match at last year's French Open.

An independent tribunal accepted that Hood had taken a treatment to prevent hair loss for several years.

He had failed to notice that finasteride had been added to the list of prohibited substances in 2005.

So, here it is, February 2006, and this dude just got his ban now. Do I have to go over again how it is completely ridiculous that these people get months and months of time to play, while these tests are being processed, appealed, etc?

I won't even get into the "failed to notice" part.