Thursday, June 13, 2024, 2:48 p.m.
The picture is even more complicated for the Muleño athlete Mo Katir, 26 years old and sanctioned without competing until February 2026 for being untraceable for anti-doping controls three times within a year. This Wednesday, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced on its
Sources close to the runner explained to LA VERDAD that the AIU now charges Katir with an alleged violation of article 2.5, tampering (manipulation and obstruction), “in relation to the information provided by the athlete regarding his location when he was required to pass the controls that were skipped.
In its statement, the AIU does not clarify the possible duration of the new sanction that Katir, world and European runner-up in the 5,000 meters and Spanish record holder in the 1,500, 3,000 and 5,000, may face. According to the World Anti-Doping Code (CMA), this punishment would range between two and four years. However, the AIU has tightened its disciplinary codes in recent months and recently imposed sanctions of up to 10 years on Kenyan athletes who falsified hospital treatments and certificates of all kinds to make it appear that they suffered from diseases that required treatment with products prohibited on the anti-doping list. .
This is not the case of Katir, who is accused of “manipulation” for presenting false evidence. One of them, for example, is the ticket to Lisbon that the man from Mula presented as an excuse to justify that he was not at his home in Mula on February 28, 2023, when at 8:10 p.m. an anti-doping agent knocked on his door. His father told her that he was in Lisbon. He then presented the bill, but the AIU says it is fake. He had also not broken down the location system on another occasion, traveling to Font Romeu to train, as Katir alleged. Now it is a matter of determining whether an athlete can be punished twice for the same thing. Or the current sanction is enough.
#Problems #growing #Mohamed #Katir #Muleño #truth