Nasirova was initially acquitted of missing charges of doping controls, but the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) appealed to the CAS. And the arbitration has now punished one of the expected favorites for Tokyo after hearing the case in April.
The 22-year-old representative of Bahrain, who ran the third best time in history at the World Championship 2019, had problems from March 2019 to January 2020. During this period, she was repeatedly not caught by the doping commissioners at the place she entered into the system. The elite quarterback refused to deliberately avoid controls.
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During the hearing of her case, the Disciplinary Committee found that the unsuccessful inspection in April 2019 was caused by a doping commissioner’s mistake because she mistaken the numbering of the apartments in the building where the runner lives and rang the wrong bell. Therefore, Nasir first escaped punishment.