Christian Coleman Banned for Two Years After Three Missed Drug Tests

The 100-meter world champ can appeal, but as it stands, he won’t be
racing at the 2021 Olympics.
By Andrew Dawson
Oct 27, 2020

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* Sprinter Christian Coleman’s two-year provisional ban for
whereabouts failures has been upheld by the Athletic Integrity
Unit. The ruling means that the 100-meter world champ will not be
able to compete at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
* Despite the ruling, there is no suggestion that Coleman ever failed
a drug test.
* There is an opportunity to appeal.
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Christian Coleman, the 100-meter world champion, has been banned
from competition by World Athletics for two years, until May 13, 2022,
for missed drug tests. That means he will likely not be allowed to race
at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.

Coleman was handed a provisional ban in June, for missing three
drug tests in a 12-month period in 2019, by the Athletics Integrity
Unit (AIU)—an organization independent of World Athletics, which
oversees drug testing, compliance, and investigations in track and
field. The punishment for “whereabouts failures” is a one- to
two-year ban, depending on the number of previous transgressions. A
disciplinary tribute panel upheld that ban.

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The World Anti-Doping Agency requires top-level athletes who are in
the registered testing pool to report their location and be available
for testing during a 60-minute time period every day. Three whereabouts
failures in a 12-month period is considered an anti-doping rule
violation. Coleman missed tests on January 16, 2019, and December 9,
2019, and he had a filing failure on April 26, 2019.

According to the ruling, Coleman argued that he was home during the
7:15 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. window of time because he remembers watching the
start of Monday Night Football, and that he must have just missed the
control officer and blood-collection assistant. His receipts from
Chipotle, at 7:53 p.m., and Walmart, at 8:22 p.m., were presented as
evidence, but AIU didn’t accept his reasoning. (You can see the entire
decision here.)

Despite the ruling, there is no indication that Coleman had ever taken
a banned substance.

Coleman now has 30 days to file an appeal to the Court of Arbitration
for Sport.
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