Orange County-based swimmer Michael Brinegar misses Olympic Trials 1,500 freestyle due to doping allegations

Orange County-based Olympic swimmer Michael Brinegar received a four-year ban from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) on Friday that prevented him racing in the preliminaries of the 1,500-meter freestyle Saturday at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Indianapolis, his coach Mark Schubert said.

Brinegar, a 2020 Olympian who trains under Schubert at The Swim Team, disclosed in a statement Saturday that he has been contesting a notification by the USADA from last year that his “test results from July...