In mid-February, Mo Katir accepted a two-year ban, until February 7, 2026, imposed by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for being untraceable for anti-doping controls three times within a year. The Murcian middle distance runner, one of the best in the world (silver at the World Cup in Budapest and national record holder in 1,500m, 3,000m and 5,000m) then thought that all his problems with sports justice were over. He gave up appealing to the Court of Arbitration for Sports (TAS), returned to training intensely, and turned the page. His spiritual peace was suddenly broken, and doubts about his cleanliness resurfaced this week when the AIU itself announced with a post on , without specifying more. “It refers,” explains Borja Osés, the athlete’s lawyer, “to an alleged violation of article 2.5, tampering (tampering and obstruction) in relation to information or documents provided by the athlete in relation to his location.”
In its statement, the AIU indicates “to be determined” in the section on the possible duration of the sanction that Katir may incur. According to the World Anti-Doping Code (CMA), this ranges between two and four years.
The accusation reflects, according to specialists, the clash between European law, the son of Roman Law, which prevails in the ordinary courts of justice in Spain and surrounding countries, and Anglo-Saxon law, by which the (CMA) is regulated. ) and international sports courts. In ordinary Spanish justice, an accused has the right to lie, as long as he calculates that it is best for his defense, and the burden of proof is on the prosecution. For the AIU, however, Katir broke the rules by consciously lying to try to justify that at three specific times in 2023 he was not where his location form, filled out by the athlete himself through the ADAMS platform.
He had not bought a ticket to Lisbon at the last minute, he had not gotten the time mixed up, the system had not broken down on another occasion, traveling to Font Romeu. Such were Katir’s justifications that were proven false, the origin of a new lawsuit, which for other specialists means a double sentence for the same infraction. This has not prevented the AIU from imposing sanctions of up to 10 years on Kenyan athletes who falsified hospital treatments and all types of certificates to make it appear that they suffered from diseases that required treatment with products prohibited on the list. anti-doping.
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