Christian ColemanWorld champion sprinter Christian Coleman is set to miss next year's Tokyo Olympics after being banned from athletics for two years for anti-doping violations. World Athletics' Disciplinary Tribunal upheld the charge and banned Coleman for two years, backdated to May 14, 2020. The Athletics Integrity Unit charged Coleman for missed tests in January and December 2019, as well as for a "filing failure" last April. But now the missed test on December 9, 2019, added to the two failures in January and April, have seen Coleman suspended. "Unfortunately, we see this case as involving behavior by the athlete as very careless at best and reckless at worst."

Source: The Standard October 28, 2020 19:07 UTC