If you recall, Welteji -- who has a 1500 pb of 3:52 and was the silver medalist at the 2023 Worlds -- was provisionally suspended right before Worlds last year after refusing to submit to a drug test in February 2025.
Initially, Welteji was charged by the Ethiopian anti-doping agency in May 2025 but was cleared by an ETH-NADO hearing panel in August. World Athletics appealed that decision.
CAS found that there was some confusion and language barriers when the DCO tried to test Welteji so knocked the ban down from four years (what the AIU was seeking) to two. But they still concluded that Welteji should have known she had to be tested when the DCO showed up.