Athletics: 100m world champion Coleman suspended

Cologne (SID) 100m world champion Christian Coleman has been banned for two years for anti-doping rule violations and will miss next year's Tokyo Olympics. The independent integrity commission AIU of the world athletics association World Athletics (WA) announced this on Tuesday. Coleman now has 30 days to appeal the ban, which was backdated to May 14, 2020, before the International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). The AIU sees it as proven that the American committed three “reporting violations” within twelve months in 2019. The 24-year-old was provisionally suspended in June. Two missed tests date from January 16 and December 9, 2019, and Coleman also committed a reporting violation on April 26, 2019. "The consequences for an athlete who has committed three 'missed tests' are draconian," said the AIU's ruling: "But instead of learning from his experiences [...], one can change the athlete's attitude towards his Describe commitments as completely careless at best, and even reckless at worst." Because Coleman already has experience with the problem. In the run-up to the 2019 World Cup in Doha, investigations against him due to three “missed tests” were ultimately discontinued. At that time, a violation of the reporting obligation had to be subsequently re-dated and therefore did not occur within the twelve-month period. Under World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) rules, any combination of three failures to report - either missing a test or failing to submit documentation on time - within a 12-month period is considered a violation.

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Athletics: 100m world champion Coleman suspended

100m world champion Christian Coleman has been banned for two years for anti-doping rule violations and will miss next year's Tokyo Olympics.

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