Coleman banned for two years
World 100 metres champion Christian Coleman has been banned from competition until May 2022 for breaches of anti-do ping ‘whereabouts’ rules.
The 24-year- old United States sprinter, who won individual and relay gold at Doha 2019, is not accused of taking a banned substance but was found guilty of two missed tests and one ‘filing failure’ in 2019.
Three whereabouts failure sin a 12- month period constitutes aruleviolation, meaning Coleman was banned for two years.
He has the right to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport within 30 days of receipt of the decision.
The ‘filing failure’ charge relates to Coleman failing to update his whereabouts information promptly after he learned of changes to his itinerary.
The December 2019 missed test occurred when Coleman went out shopping during his designated one-hour times lot, meaning a third strike on his record for the year.