The fastest sprinter in the world, Christian Coleman, innocent of doping

Best sprinter Christian Coleman will be eligible for this month's World Championships and the next year's Olympics after the US Anti-Doping Agency (US) has dropped his record for missed tests for technical reasons .

Coleman is the reigning US champion and one of the 100-meter favorites, a distance for which he holds the world record over the past three years.

The world championships start on Sept. 28 in Qatar, where Coleman will be looking to complete the silver medal he won in 2017. In this race, he beat Usain Bolt, who was running in the last 100.

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Coleman was sanctioned for three "location failures" over a 12-month period. This meant that he also did not fill in the forms telling the authorities where he could be found or that he was not where he had advertised it.

But the interpretation of the rule given by the World Anti-Doping Agency is antedated to its first failure on April 1, 2018, instead of the date on which it actually occurred, on June 6, 2018 His final failure was on April 26, 2019. USADA said Monday (Tuesday NZT) because there were not three failures within 12 months, the case would not be continued.

"A consistent application of global anti-doping rules is essential in all cases," said USADA Managing Director Travis Tygart.

"In this case, we applied the rules to Mr. Coleman in the way that, according to USADA, should apply to any other world-class athlete. main objective of ensuring fairness to athletes in accordance with the rules and ensuring transparency and consistency in order to strengthen their confidence and support for the anti-doping system. "

USADA reported that in 2018 and 2019, Coleman had provided its location information on time each quarter and had been tested by USADA 20 times.

AMA and the organization that handles doping cases for the International Track Federation have the right to pursue the case, although we do not expect it.

Shortly after the details of the case had been made public, Coleman had issued a statement in which he stated that "what has been widely reported regarding grading violations is simply not true" and that he hoped to be erased.

Had the WADA authorities not given him an amicable interpretation of the start of the match, he could have faced a case that could result in a two-year ban. According to the interpretation of the rule in the official WADA document, "a failure to deposit will be considered as having taken place on the first day of the quarter for which the Athlete fails to make a declaration. [sufficient] deposit."

In this case, the first day of the quarter was April 1 st. On June 6, Coleman's "no ranking" – not the one where he said he would be about to take a test – took place. form completed on April 1 st. This rule is being rewritten to avoid confusion for a new version of the code, which will take effect in 2021.