Make that FOUR missed drug checks: Doping bosses reveal dash champ who referred to as skipping checks ‘NORMAL’ additionally missed one THIS YEAR

World 400m champion Salwa Eid Naser, who insisted she had not been examined this 12 months and had “by no means been a cheat” regardless of dealing with a ban for lacking three earlier checks, additionally missed one in January, officers have introduced.

Naser responded on Instagram after the Athletics Integrity Unit provisionally suspended the 2019 World Championships gold medalist for lacking three checks across the time of the competitors in Doha, telling followers that she “solely missed three drug checks, which is regular.”

Now the testing physique has launched an announcement saying that the 22-year-old, who was the primary Asian lady to grow to be world champion in her self-discipline, had a fourth “whereabouts failure” in January this 12 months.

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“The investigation…was ongoing on the time of the Doha World Championships and she or he was not provisionally suspended at the moment,” defined the unit, clarifying their place after Naser mentioned she “did not need individuals to get confused.”

“Following conclusion of the investigation and a fourth whereabouts failure in January 2020, a discover of cost was issued and Ms Naser topic to an instantaneous provisional suspension. The disciplinary course of is ongoing.”

Naser’s astonishing time of 48.14 on the championships eclipsed Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo and was the third-fastest time in historical past. The 2 runners to have run quicker have been closely suspected of being concerned in systemic, state-sponsored drug-taking through the 1980s, though they by no means failed checks.

“This 12 months I’ve not been drug examined,” acknowledged Naser. “Hopefully it’ll get resolved as a result of I don’t actually just like the picture, but it surely has occurred. It will possibly occur to anyone.”

Beneath World Athletics’ anti-doping guidelines, a whereabouts violation consists of any mixture of three missed checks or submitting failures throughout a 12-month interval.

“It’ll be wonderful,” continued Naser. “It’s extremely exhausting to have this little stain on my title. I might by no means take performance-enhancing medication. I consider in expertise, and I do know I’ve the expertise.”

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