I get that he hadn't updated his whereabout to reflect where he'd gone, but why were they turning up outside his given time-slot?
This is common practice. If testers only showed up within a one-hour window, athletes would know they are not going to be tested the remaining 23 hours of the day, which makes it easier to microdose. That's why athletes have to provide an overnight location and regular practice locations. With the first test, if Katir was half an hour away running an errand but had coordinated with the DCO to take the test, he would not have received a whereabouts failure. You only get in trouble in this situation when you are nowhere near your listed location -- and that was the case here given Katir was in a different country.
So how far out of the 1 hour window are the testers allowed to show up? That doesn't seem quite fair. What if you are actually traveling that day or something, or have to be elsewhere across town after the hour is up? What is the actual rule?
Are they supposed to provide both a 1 hour window and where they will be overnight too?
Within the 1 hour, you have to be exactly where you said you'd be.
Outside of it, no matter how far outside, you have to be in the vicinity of your announced location. The tester will have to able to locate you - see Mo's father's comments. If you have to travel, you have to tell ADAMS (or AIU in case of technical difficulties).
Thank goodness he finally got caught. I didn't think it was possible to be more obviously a doper than Rashid Ramzi, but Katir proved me wrong. That's at least one more Olympic medal going to a potentially clean athlete instead of a doper.
Katir's whereabout failures remind me of the time that UFC champion Jon Jones allegedly hid underneath the MMA ring set up in the middle of his gym for an hour when testers showed up unexpectedly. Funny stuff!
This is common practice. If testers only showed up within a one-hour window, athletes would know they are not going to be tested the remaining 23 hours of the day, which makes it easier to microdose. That's why athletes have to provide an overnight location and regular practice locations. With the first test, if Katir was half an hour away running an errand but had coordinated with the DCO to take the test, he would not have received a whereabouts failure. You only get in trouble in this situation when you are nowhere near your listed location -- and that was the case here given Katir was in a different country.
So how far out of the 1 hour window are the testers allowed to show up? That doesn't seem quite fair. What if you are actually traveling that day or something, or have to be elsewhere across town after the hour is up? What is the actual rule?
Are they supposed to provide both a 1 hour window and where they will be overnight too?
Yes. And when he was asked to provide why he wasnt on his location at night he claimed he had to fly to see his fiance and booked tickets that morning. He had actually booked the tickets several days earlier. Lying to try and excuse why he wasnt where he said he would be definitely shows he was avoiding a test.
Katir’s admission of whereabouts failures were buried in the Spanish sporting press by the announcement that Kylian Mbappé will be coming to Real Madrid when his contract at PSG runs out in June. Mbappé is one of the world’s best players, and this is news that has been awaited for months, so it is a big deal. Mo's story did make it into the pages of Marca, Spain’s largest-selling sports newspaper, where “Mo” was quoted as saying that “the failures (whereabouts) were because I didn’t understand.” He also asked forgiveness from “those who have supported me all my life…my family, sponsors…trainers…”
He insisted that his suspension had nothing to do with taking drugs, but rather with “incorrect update of data on my whereabouts.” He explained that he tried to inform WADA of his location, but failed to inform the AIU, and that he thought an email was sufficient to update. “These failures of location were due to my lack of understating of how the ADAMS system works. But, he further explains, “This problem has come up because I am a very clueless (despistado) person.”
And Katir insisted that “all my achievements to date have been without any sort of doping.” Within the 66 comments on the article, the tone is much like that on Let’s Run: if he hid instead of getting tested, that is a good indication that he is doping.
Horas despu?s de que la Unidad de Integridad del Atletismo hiciera p?blica la sanci?n de dos a?os a Mohamed Katir, por no estar localizable en tres controles antidopaje en el perio
Among the pithier comments on his self-characterization as a despistado: “Misunderstanding? You sound like our Prime Minister!” “This guy’s as phony as a 5000 Euro note” (these don’t exist). “He lies more than he runs.” “An error??!! You’re not going to the Olympics because of an error??”
The article leaves aside major questions bearing on Mo’s future: Will Asics continue to pay him during these two years of no competition? After this debacle, do they even want to continue to sponsor him? I would suppose that there is something in his contract about “bringing the brand into disrepute…” so that it can be unilaterally terminated.
One poster revealed that Ketir receives a bursary from “the Spanish government” (probably the Spanish Royal Athletics Federation?) and that undoubtedly he will keep that.
That didn't take long. Just nine days after he was provisionally suspended for whereabouts failures, Katir admitted to the failures and his 2-year ban was confirmed by the AIU.
Katir had claimed last week he would appeal as he felt there was an issue with the second failure, but he did not appeal and instead accepted the ban.
As far as whereabouts excuses go, Katir's aren't very believable and the AIU poked holes in them pretty easily.
First missed test (2/28/23): Testers showed up to his house that evening (outside his 60-minute window) but he was in Lisbon. Katir claimed his fiancee was feeling unwell and he had to book a flight to visit her that day in Lisbon. Except the flight receipts showed he had actually booked the flight two days earlier.
Second missed test (4/3/23): Testers showed up to Katir's house during his 60-minute window, but he was in Font Romeu. Katir claimed his whereabouts app wasn't working since March 28 and he wasn't able to update his location properly. But records show he was able to log in and update on March 29 and didn't make any attempts to log in after that. And then after the testers showed up to his house on April 3, he was able to log in and successfully update his location.
Third missed test (10/10/23): Testers showed up to his house during his 60-minute window in the evening and Katir's father claimed he was training 30 minutes away and unreachable by phone. Katir claims he thought his window had been earlier in the day.
The third explanation seems particularly egregious. You're sitting on two missed tests and you set your 60-minute window incorrectly? Either the dude was completely careless or he was doping.
Looks like he admitted to the three whereabouts failures.
You are welcome to believe your ILLUSIONS.
Lol
Lemme guess: in your illusions, Katir's lies and hiding prove that he didn't dope, amirite?
It’s that troublemaker l’innoculateur. He’s likely not even bothered to read katir’s excuses. In fact, he probably doesn’t even want to know. Rather, he’s on board with blind adulation and the refusal to accept that Katir is a doper. He’s the same guy that argues Aouita to be clean. Don’t even waste your time with this poster, as doping is a perfectly accepted practice in Morocco.
That didn't take long. Just nine days after he was provisionally suspended for whereabouts failures, Katir admitted to the failures and his 2-year ban was confirmed by the AIU.
Katir had claimed last week he would appeal as he felt there was an issue with the second failure, but he did not appeal and instead accepted the ban.
As far as whereabouts excuses go, Katir's aren't very believable and the AIU poked holes in them pretty easily.
First missed test (2/28/23): Testers showed up to his house that evening (outside his 60-minute window) but he was in Lisbon. Katir claimed his fiancee was feeling unwell and he had to book a flight to visit her that day in Lisbon. Except the flight receipts showed he had actually booked the flight two days earlier.
Second missed test (4/3/23): Testers showed up to Katir's house during his 60-minute window, but he was in Font Romeu. Katir claimed his whereabouts app wasn't working since March 28 and he wasn't able to update his location properly. But records show he was able to log in and update on March 29 and didn't make any attempts to log in after that. And then after the testers showed up to his house on April 3, he was able to log in and successfully update his location.
Third missed test (10/10/23): Testers showed up to his house during his 60-minute window in the evening and Katir's father claimed he was training 30 minutes away and unreachable by phone. Katir claims he thought his window had been earlier in the day.
The third explanation seems particularly egregious. You're sitting on two missed tests and you set your 60-minute window incorrectly? Either the dude was completely careless or he was doping.
Thank you for posting the explanations. Seems he’s a chronic liar. Good riddance. The fact that he didn’t even appeal is very telling.
Yeah this is a good point and I thought the same. It smells of "yep I rolled the dice, ran the gauntlet and this was ultimately inevitable so it's not really even worth the energy to fight it". And that's right down to the 3 laughable explanations.
And in a backwards way I at least respect he's not trying to insult our intelligence recruiting lawyers and looking to find any micro-fissure of plausibility to excuse himself - "so are you saying it's not possible that his phone was experiencing a software update at the exact time he should have been updating his whereabouts app, therefore making it impossible to use his phone - prove to me that's not possible!"
And really this was only a win-win for him - what did he ever have to lose? He probably made 300k in the last couple of years in appearance/prize/funding money - don't know what else the guy would be doing. He's a Moroccan native living in Spain for gods sake - I think Rafa Nadal farting at the supermarket is bigger news in that country than this is.
In Europe, Spain is known as being on the other side of the line. It's no surprise, look at the recent Spanish doping controls with retrospective TUE's, operacion puerto etc. There's no surprises here.
Athletes are not obliged to document their entire life, everything they do, from what I know.
8:10 pm that is not an "overnight accommodation". A DCO officer should wait until 01am at least, probably should wait all night for him.
* or some pseudo-crafty lawyer has detailed this situation in rules. ** though of course waiting would be for nothing as Katir was not going to sleep that night there.
That didn't take long. Just nine days after he was provisionally suspended for whereabouts failures, Katir admitted to the failures and his 2-year ban was confirmed by the AIU.
Katir had claimed last week he would appeal as he felt there was an issue with the second failure, but he did not appeal and instead accepted the ban.
As far as whereabouts excuses go, Katir's aren't very believable and the AIU poked holes in them pretty easily.
First missed test (2/28/23): Testers showed up to his house that evening (outside his 60-minute window) but he was in Lisbon. Katir claimed his fiancee was feeling unwell and he had to book a flight to visit her that day in Lisbon. Except the flight receipts showed he had actually booked the flight two days earlier.
Second missed test (4/3/23): Testers showed up to Katir's house during his 60-minute window, but he was in Font Romeu. Katir claimed his whereabouts app wasn't working since March 28 and he wasn't able to update his location properly. But records show he was able to log in and update on March 29 and didn't make any attempts to log in after that. And then after the testers showed up to his house on April 3, he was able to log in and successfully update his location.
Third missed test (10/10/23): Testers showed up to his house during his 60-minute window in the evening and Katir's father claimed he was training 30 minutes away and unreachable by phone. Katir claims he thought his window had been earlier in the day.
The third explanation seems particularly egregious. You're sitting on two missed tests and you set your 60-minute window incorrectly? Either the dude was completely careless or he was doping.
The third explanation seems particularly egregious. You're sitting on two missed tests and you set your 60-minute window incorrectly? Either the dude was completely careless or he was doping.
"Egregious" is a strong word given these facts. How long, if at all, are the testers obligated to wait? You've got to have sympathy for these guys who are required cede their freedom of movement. No wonder Nuguse wants to go to dental school after the Olympics.
The third explanation seems particularly egregious. You're sitting on two missed tests and you set your 60-minute window incorrectly? Either the dude was completely careless or he was doping.
"Egregious" is a strong word given these facts. How long, if at all, are the testers obligated to wait? You've got to have sympathy for these guys who are required cede their freedom of movement. No wonder Nuguse wants to go to dental school after the Olympics.
Nuguse wants to go to dental school to obtain a marketable skill he can milk beyond next week.