The sanction will not be lifted.
The Council of State rejected this Friday the appeal of the athlete Clémence Calvin and her husband and trainer, Samir Dahmani.
The couple contested the four-year suspension that the French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) had imposed on them in December 2019.
The 2018 European marathon runner-up was sanctioned for evading doping control on March 27, 2019 in Marrakech, Morocco.
Samir Dahmani, a middle distance specialist, intervened to allow him to flee, according to AFLD investigators.
She claimed to have been assaulted
The couple refuted this version.
Clémence Calvin claimed to have been attacked by Damien Ressiot, director of controls at the Agency.
The latter, according to her, had presented himself with the two controllers as being members of the French police.
The athlete then assured that an altercation had followed, dragging his two-year-old son to the ground.
The thesis did not convince the Council of State.
The latter rejected the couple's appeal and ratified this four-year suspension, which will therefore end at the end of 2023. Clémence Calvin and Samir Dahmani were also ordered to pay 1,500 euros each to the AFLD.
