Christian Coleman BANNED until May 2022 as AIU Tribunal upholds his ban for 3 missed drug tests

Also they came to his house at 12:09. Why??? He never said he would be available then.

Are we happy with a testing regime that allows an athlete to miss two tests every year for their entire career?

Say someone missed two tests in 2020, two in 2021, two in 2022, two in 2023, two in 2024, two in 2025, two in 2026 etc. Would anyone feel good about that person being world or Olympic champion?.

Shouldn't there be a rolling total of, say, no more than five missed tests in three years too?

Cynical ?

Report states ... "33. However, the Athlete only updated his whereabouts after he received the call from the DCO and that was two days after he had arrived in Iowa, and about three days after he was informed that the circumstances will change. This is a clear breach of Art. I.3.5. ISTI. Further, the Athlete’s updated Whereabouts information for 26 April specified a time which had already passed, so that in the end no valid 60-minute slot remained for that day at all. Therefore, we are satisfied the Athlete committed a Filing Failure on 26 April 2019."

There were timestamps to say when he edited the info.

How else to interpret it. He knew he'd just committed his third violation (which ended up being let off on a technicality); so he tried to make it look like the testers had it wrong, not him.

Renewed Marathoner wrote:

Also they came to his house at 12:09. Why??? He never said he would be available then.

25. Testing attempts may be made outside the 60-minute window however in such circumstances if the Athlete is not present the Filing Failure provisions are applicable (rather than the Missed Tests regime).

They came to test him at his home address in Lexington which is when they discovered he wasn't where he said he'd be.

It's all there in the document. They've laid it out in plain, simple format that's easy to understand.

Any truth that he tried to use CPT as an excuse?

Matthew Boling can medal now!

The other unbelievable thing about the missed test on December 9th is the suggestion a 23-year-old man would be Christmas shopping over two weeks before the day ...

I don't understand that. So they can test you at any time basically? And you have to make yourself available?

I thought you just have to be available for the specified hour of a day?

How on earth could you plan where you are 24 hours a day every day. Wouldn't that be required since they aren't required to call you? What if I go to the store, or the movies, or out to eat. What if my phone is dead. Then I'm pinged for a missed test not even in the window or where I said I'd be? Did he actually say he'd be home otherwise outside of the window?

That's not fair to be able to show up outside the hour. To me it's too restrictive of the life of an athlete to be honest.

Ok looks like I was wrong about some of this. He said he'd be home but wasn't.

I don't like the idea that you need to say where you are 24 hours a day for your entire life. However, apparently it can be updated in 5 minutes so that's helpful.

I'm more comfortable with the 1 hr a day, be there or missed test strike. But even that is pretty restrictive.

But hold up what's the point of the 1 hour window if you can be tested at any time? Geesh I could be napping and miss a call or knock at door so easily. And I wouldn't be able to sleep as easily worrying about this missed test bonanza. Reminds me of the girl who was filming herself the entire hour window every day. I don't think it's the best system or way to treat our athletes.

But yeah doping is rampant so... I'm not sure what the best answer is. Being available 1 hour a day is acceptable to me. And yes definitely no advance warning.

What's the difference between filing failure and missed test regime?

"circumstances change?" Wait so he decided the day before he went to drake that he was going to go? Is that what they are saying?

I kind of see what you're saying. Maybe you're right. But he spoke with dco so I think it's unlikely he'd think oh ok I'll change my window so it's their fault. I thought he was just updating it for the days he was at drake. But I'm probably wrong.

Also. He blatantly lied about coming home during his wal mart run. To me that's damning. Was he avoiding a test or just lying to say oh it was your mistake I came home. Who knows. But he was an idiot to not be home.

I do kind of agree with rojo (expecting a call cause that's how it's been could happen). I doubt athletes read every single article of the code and remember it all. Personally I think you should be just available during that hour. As in home or close by. And if you can get there within the hour, no problem. Like that other doping case. Here. He just wasn't there at all during the hour. But if we assume he wasn't doping. If he got a call he wouldve driven home and been tested. I dunno what dco has to gain by not calling him right then. Facilitate him taking the test. You're more likely to catch him on the sauce if he's evading it anyways.

AJ2000 wrote:

This will be appealed and reduced to a 1 year ban, making him eligible for Tokyo still...

.. this will be pure lip service as a result of the Nasser mess up.

The issues stated that he has previously been called, was close by shopping not a deliberate attempt at missing in his eye (BS btw, rules are rules) and will be reduced to 1 year... I have no doubt

I have my doubts. Letsrun Quote of the Day:

Quote Of The Day

“Rather than learn with his experience with USADA, the Athlete’s attitude to his obligations can fairly be described as entirely careless, perhaps even reckless. … We do not think there is any mitigation which can fairly be relied upon to reduce the sanction from the two-year period.”

– Excerpt from a World Athletics Disciplinary Tribunal’s decision on Christian Coleman, upholding his two-year ban for missing three drug tests in 2019.

Renewed Marathoner wrote:

I dunno what dco has to gain by not calling him right then. Facilitate him taking the test. You're more likely to catch him on the sauce if he's evading it anyways.

Sounds like they didn't want to give him notice or put him in a system where he was never home and they had to call him every time. No doubt that would be annoying, and not something DCOs should have to do. That being said, I think calling someone and giving them 15 minutes to show up (or until the end of the designated hour) could be part of the deal. It's easily documented and that can't be enough time to get it out of your system. It would also end the whining by athletes.

The bottom line is that he wasn't honest. His whereabouts timeline doesn't add up and he isn't a bit apologetic. What Christian and his supporters don't understand is that he is the one who has the most to lose and is paying a steep price by missing the Olympics, not to mention lost endorsements and his reputation. His behavior and actions don't add up, and any logical person(s) will deduce that the only reason for this is that he has something to hide, the obvious conclusion is that he cheated.

"Go Run One"

Aouita 84 wrote:

The bottom line is that he wasn't honest. His whereabouts timeline doesn't add up and he isn't a bit apologetic. What Christian and his supporters don't understand is that he is the one who has the most to lose and is paying a steep price by missing the Olympics, not to mention lost endorsements and his reputation. His behavior and actions don't add up, and any logical person(s) will deduce that the only reason for this is that he has something to hide, the obvious conclusion is that he cheated.

"Go Run One"

I don't see having something to hide as the ONLY reason possible. There are numerous men of his age (and older) who have no interest in doing anything more than what they think is fun e.g. sprinting, drinking, driving fast cars, going out when their friends call them up to go drinking or whoring.

I'm sure the admin involved in keeping your whereabouts up -to-date is something you need to do day-in, day-out and keep checking revising. And flippin' boring to keep on top of. Not something that interests meatheads.

If this were Serena Williams or Roger Federer missing tests due to admin issues then yeah, I'd believe there's something to hide.

But for Coieman, I could put it down to lack of professionalism. But either way he deserves to be banned and when he returns, he'll be getting banned again. And playing the victim again.

I'm sad. Dynamic athlete. He was a big reason I wanted to watch olympics.

What a kick. Another dirty question mark.

Renewed Marathoner wrote:

I don't like the idea that you need to say where you are 24 hours a day for your entire life. However, apparently it can be updated in 5 minutes so that's helpful.

Lucky you're not a professional athlete because that's essentially the expectation. Well, 18-hrs per day 5am - 11pm-ish.

I'm more comfortable with the 1 hr a day, be there or missed test strike. But even that is pretty restrictive.

But then you'd put yourself as available at 6am-7am every morning and once the window has gone you've got 24 hours to glow.

Or you could game it even better with 6am on Monday, 10pm Tuesday, 6am Weds, 10pm Thurs giving you 40 hours of guaranteed non-testing.

But hold up what's the point of the 1 hour window if you can be tested at any time?

Previous comment aside,

It seems a little unfair on that part. I guess if they come unannounced, they'll phone at the beginning of the hour thereby giving you time to get back from the shops or your friends house to meet them. You should stiil be in the area and able to get back in the hour.

I expect they don't come unannounced too often?

And when you fill in Whereabouts while there's a designated hour, you also provide details on your standard day. So probably they go to those places before / during / after training sessions when they know you'll be at the track/gym/just waking up.

[quote[What's the difference between filing failure and missed test regime?[/quote]

- Missed test is you were at Walmart christmas shopping when you said you'd be at home.

- FiIing failure is saying you'd be at your home / stadium / track and turned out to be two hundred miles away.

I'm sure emergencies happen but if you update the Whereabouts when you get that call to go visit your sister in hospital in the other state, then the tester who was going to your house gets told not to bother so there is no missed test or failed filing.

Wejo or Rejo, do you know anything about his college grades?

This has been a REALLY good week for Ben Johnson of Canada!

Did any of the 16 items he purchased at Walmart happen to be clenbuterol? Just saying.