- American provisionally banned for whereabouts failure
- Coleman accuses AIU of trying to get him banned
The world 100m champion Christian Coleman has been told that going on a Christmas shopping trip is no defence for missing a drugs test under World Anti-Doping Agency rules – and neither is a tester obliged to call him to find out where he is.
The 24-year-old American, who is said to earn close to a seven-figure salary from his sponsors Nike and faces the prospect of a two-year ban that could see him miss next year’s Olympics, launched a lengthy defence of his actions on social media hours before he was provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit for three “whereabouts” failures in 2019.
Written by Sean Ingle
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jun/17/christian-coleman-provisionally-suspended-over-missed-drugs-test under the title “World 100m champion Christian Coleman told shopping no excuse for missed test”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
