Sprinter Amaury Golitin has been officially suspended for four years for "breaches of location obligations" and "falsification", as indicated in a publication by the French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) on Wednesday, about a decision taken on March 30.
Provisionally suspended since June 2022, Golitin (26) will not be able to compete before June 2026, and will therefore miss the Paris Olympics in 2024.
Golitin has failed three times in less than a year to meet his anti-doping location obligations. To justify his third breach, he had tried to provide false documents, a gesture that greatly increases the penalty.
The sprinter had explained last year to AFP that in June 2022, he had left one evening Insep, where he was training, "without updating his location". After a morning phone call from a controller, "I came as soon as possible, probably late. I did my check," he said.
This former pillar of the 4x100m relay tricolor had then received the notification of "three breaches", synonymous with sanctions, a few weeks before the Tokyo Olympics.
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I had 24 hours to find an excuse, I doctored my Uber statements. I made a lot of small mistakes. For the first two breaches I clearly have my faults, "he added, evoking "negligence" for the first two failures and acknowledging "not to be rigorous".
Athletes must constantly indicate their location in a software called "Adams" so that they can be checked at any time.
The sanction was the subject of an agreement between Golitin and the AFLD, the athlete initially faced a five-year suspension.