World champion sprinter Christian Coleman is set to miss next year’s Tokyo Olympics after being banned from athletics for two years for ant...
World champion sprinter Christian Coleman is set to miss next year’s Tokyo Olympics after being banned from athletics for two years for anti-doping violations, the Athletics Integrity Unit announced on Tuesday.
The athlete will remain ineligible to compete until 13 May 2022.
— Athletics Integrity Unit (@aiu_athletics) October 27, 2020
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The American, who won the men’s 100 metres at last year’s World Championships in Doha, was provisionally suspended for three ‘whereabouts failures’ (missed tests) in June.
World Athletics’ Disciplinary Tribunal upheld the charge and banned Coleman for two years, backdated to 14 May, 2020.
The 24-year-old has 30 days to appeal against the decision at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
He is set to miss next year’s Olympic Games in Japan, where he would have been among the favourites to win 100m gold.
Coleman, who is also the 60m world record holder, only ran in the 4x100m relay heats in his first Olympic appearance in Rio de Janeiro four years ago.
The AIU charged Coleman for missed tests in January and December 2019, as well as for a “filing failure” last April.
To prove an anti-doping violation, an athlete has to have committed three whereabouts failures within 12 months.
Coleman previously escaped suspension on a technicality ahead of last September’s World Championships.
Those three whereabouts failures were recorded on June...
