He From Town Hall (Murcia), town of Mohamed Katirstrongly expressed its support for the athlete in relation to his disqualification for failing to appear for three anti-doping controls in the past 12 months, which puts his participation in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in serious jeopardy, and requested that it be upheld “as soon as possible.” “the careful suspension of said penalty, which could keep him up to two years without competition.
“We invite everyone to adopt a position in favor of the presumption of innocence of the athlete, who has not been proven positive for the consumption of substances prohibited to compete, but rather a failure to register the location of the athlete in three doping controls,” the City Council said in a statement.
“We hope that the institutions concerned will resolve this precautionary suspension as soon as possible and we trust that Mohamed Katir will be able to participate in the upcoming competitions and represent our country at the Paris Olympic Games,” added the said note made by the public. the institution that presides as the mayor Juan Jesus Moreno Garcia.
This request of the Consistory is affiliated with the Autonomous Community, which, on behalf of the general director of Sports, Francisco Sanchezappeared in defense of the athlete and also asked the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) to agree with the athlete, who was “not suspected.”
Katir, 25 years old – he turns 26 on February 17 – faces a provisional suspension imposed by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for “breach of rules arising from three location failures in the last 12 months” and this requires the withdrawal of its federal license.
The athlete, born in the Moroccan town of Alcazarquivir and raised since he was a child in Mula, a town where he came with his parents, could not be found for doping control on three occasions in the past year and he attributed it to errors when completing the data for its location on the platform created for this purpose, ADAMS, something he said after undergoing about 25 urine and blood tests and never testing positive for any doping substance, he insisted.
Despite this, the president of the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation (RFEA), Raul Chapadoindicated that, although the precautionary suspension of punishment was applied, as long as there was an open file on Katir, Spain could not select him for any competition in accordance with the internal rules of the RFEA itself.
Source: La Verdad
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