Disgraced Australia winger Wendell Sailor will almost certainly take his case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in an attempt to have his two-year ban reduced.
The 32-year-old had his lucrative Australian Rugby Union (ARU) contract torn up earlier this year when he was found to have used a banned substance during the Super 14 competition.
Sailor has until August 25 to appeal the sentence with CAS after informing the ARU two weeks ago he would not be asking them to review the case.
But Sailor is adamant he is undeserving of the current ban and believes his case is in a different league to that of pending cases involving American sprinter Justin Gatlin and Tour de France winner Floyd Landis who both maintain their innocence after failing dope tests.
'I think we'll be looking at the CAS. In a perfect world we'd like to get some time cut off,' Sailor told the Sunday Telegraph.
'I'd certainly be happy with a one-year ban. We will try to get some of the sentence cut off because we do think two years is too steep. I was stupid but I don't feel I'm in the same category as Gatlin and Landis.
'Not for one second am I saying I shouldn't cop a suspension. I didn't try to use bureaucratic loopholes to get out of stuff, but the punishment does not fit the crime.
'We'll sit down next week, see if it's viable and whether we go down that road.'
