Christian Coleman, the world 100m champion, said he could be suspended after missing a drug test that he believes shouldn’t be a strike on his record.
Coleman tweeted Tuesday that he spent the last six months appealing a missed drug test from Dec. 9. Combined with a previous missed test and a previous filing failure (missing a test for failing to update his whereabouts), he could face a suspension for three strikes in a 12-month period.
Coleman called the Dec. 9 incident “a purposeful attempt to get me to miss a test.”
The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), which handles doping cases for track and field, has not commented on Coleman’s situation.