Banned Coleman to miss Tokyo Olympics

The fastest man in the world, American sprinter Christian Coleman, will miss the Tokyo Olympics after failing yesterday in an appeal to overturn his ban for missed doping tests.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport did cut the 100m world champion’s ban from two years to 18 months, but the ban won’t expire until November, three months after the Olympics.

The panel of three judges said 18 months “was the appropriate sanction in the circumstances” because Coleman was not entirely at fault for one of his three missed tests in a one-year period.