2023-07-05 00:44:10
French sprinter Mouhamadou Fall, who risks missing the Paris Olympics for three breaches of his anti-doping whereabouts obligations, asked for “the greatest leniency” before the independent sanctions commission of the French Anti-Doping Agency ( AFLD) this Tuesday. The 31-year-old athlete, three-time French 100m champion, has known for a year that he is under the threat of a suspension of up to two years for two location faults, on April 1, 2022 and April 16, 2022. June 2022, and a “no show”, on May 8, 2022.
“My name is associated with something fishy. Following that, I missed my Championships, and my season was super complicated. I lost a lot financially, I am put aside in relay. Knowing that I’m a quote-unquote plague victim is hard,” Fall said during a rare public Sanctions Committee hearing. “This is why I ask for the greatest leniency in the decision”, pleaded the sprinter, fourth fastest European over 200m in 2023.
A reprieve mentioned
The Sanctions Committee, an independent body of the AFLD, met after Fall refused in May a proposal for a two-year suspension made by the AFLD. His decision is expected in the coming days and will be subject to appeal. Any suspension would take effect from the date of this decision.
Fall put forward technical problems connecting to the Adams software, which lists the daily location and competitions of athletes, to justify its first breach, which concerns a quarter of required information recorded late. For the third, he defended himself by explaining that he had mentioned a three-day course in Paris on the date he started, but then delayed recording his detailed data “for fear of not entering the sufficient information, in this case his hotel room number.
“Your commission could” sanction Mouhamadou Fall “for the negligence to which he was subjected”, without “however destroying the career of an athlete”, pleaded Me Romain Vanni, one of his three lawyers, evoking a possible reprieve. The AFLD, which estimates the “significant degree of fault”, also mentioned two new location failures notified to the French sprinter in 2023, but not yet acted upon, which means that Fall can still be explained. above.
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