⁍ Christian Coleman will miss next year’s Tokyo Olympics after being banned for two years for breaching whereabouts rules.

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⁍ Coleman narrowly escaped a ban last year for missing three doping tests.

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⁍ The American sprinter claimed at the time of his provisional suspension that anti-doping officials had not followed procedure when he missed them.

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– Sprinter Christian Coleman has been banned from the Tokyo Olympics for two years for violating anti-doping rules, the International Association of Athletics Federations announced Tuesday. The 25-year-old, who won the 100 meters at the 2017 World Athletics Championships in Beijing, was suspended in June for missing three doping tests after going Christmas shopping in December, per Reuters. He claimed anti-doping officials didn’t follow procedure by not calling him on the night in question. But shopping receipts show Coleman bought 16 items from a Walmart Supercenter at 8:22pm on the night in question, around the time he said he arrived home, the International Association of Athletics Federations said. “We see this case as involving behavior by the athlete as very careless at best and reckless at worst,” the AIU said in a statement. “The fact is that he had had the narrowest possible escape from a potential ban on this prior occasion. It might be thought he would have learned from this experience … in fact, that is not at all what happened.” Coleman could appeal the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.