(Reuters) -World 100 metres champion Christian Coleman had his two-year ban for breaching anti-doping whereabouts rules reduced to 18 months by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Friday but will still be ineligible for the Tokyo Olympics. The sprinter had been handed a two-year suspension by an independent tribunal of track and field's Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) in October last year. Three failures in a 12-month period to be at a location provided to anti-doping officials is considered a doping violation. He said he would now focus on next year's world championships, which will be staged in the United States for the first time. Coleman also narrowly escaped a ban in 2019 for whereabouts failures.

Source: The Star April 16, 2021 07:41 UTC