It’s starting to do a lot for Mouhamadou Fall. Barely cleared of an anti-doping procedure, the French sprinter tested positive for a stimulant. Fall (31 years old) tested positive for octodrine on July 28 during the French athletics championships, the day of his 100m coronation, he told AFP by telephone, confirming information from the site The Team. “We are going to have the B sample checked,” explained the four-time French straight-line champion.
The French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) wanted to sanction him for three breaches of his anti-doping whereabouts obligations in 2022, but Fall, pillar of the 4×100 m tricolor relay, sixth at the World Championships in Budapest in August, had been released in July, the sanctions commission having deemed the third breach inadmissible. The AFLD then announced its intention to initiate an appeal before the Council of State in this procedure.