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Christian Coleman, the world’s fastest man, will miss the Olympic Games next year after being told his explanation for one of three missed drug tests was “simply impossible” as he was handed a two-year doping ban.

“Shopping receipts show that the athlete was shopping at least from 7.13pm, also purchased a chipotle at 7.53pm and finally purchased 16 items from a Walmart Super Centre at 8.22pm,” the tribunal said. “The athlete’s evidence was that he returned home briefly some time between 8 and 8.10pm, ate his chipotle while watching the kick-off and then went out again. We do not accept the athlete’s evidence.

It would have been simply impossible for him to purchase a chipotle at 7:53pm [the store being five-nine minutes to his residence], drive home, park the car, go into his residence, eat the chipotle, then watch the kick-off of the football game which only started at 8:15pm, and thereafter go out again in his car, drive to the store and pick up 16 items at the Walmart Supercenter so as to be able to pay for them by 8:22pm.”

This year Coleman also criticised testers for not calling him when he was shopping to see where he was, as they had done on previous occasions

Coleman, who has never failed a drug test, has 30 days to appeal against the ban to the court of arbitration for sport

Shopping receipts showed that Coleman was shopping and bought Chipotle at 7:53 p.m. and then 16 items from Walmart at 8:22 p.m. The AIU panel said the drug testers would have noticed Coleman if he had returned for the game.

The three-judge panel has been asked by the World Anti-Doping Agency to ban Russia’s name, flag and anthem from the Tokyo Olympics and 2022 Winter Games in Beijing, plus four years of world championships.

CAS said the hearing will be held at a secure and undisclosed location in Lausanne with no access to people not directly involved in the case. Some will take part remotely by video link.

Third parties who asked to be involved include the International Olympic Committee, the International Paralympic Committee, ice hockey’s world governing body and the Russian affiliates of all those organizations, plus some Russian athletes.

A verdict is not expected for at least several weeks.

The worsening pandemic in Switzerland means the three judges can no longer come to Lausanne

THE JUDGES

WADA chose Luigi Fumagalli of Italy.

Russia’s pick is Hamid Gharavi, a dual France-Iran national. He was selected by Russian athletes in cases that overturned 28 disqualifications by the IOC from Sochi.

The panel president the two judges chose is Mark Williams, an Australian who has ruled on athlete selection disputes for his country’s Olympic body.

The verdict should bind all sports bodies signed up to the World Anti-Doping Code.

“This decision must be watertight and waterproof,” IOC President Thomas Bach said in January. “It cannot leave any, any room for any kind of interpretation.”