Trinidad and Tobago’s sprinter Michelle-Lee Ahye is facing an Anti-Doping violation. Ahye is provisionally suspended from the sport.
Athletics Integrity Unit, an independent body of the IAAF, confirmed the suspension in a tweet on Thursday (12 Sept). “The AIU confirms a Provisional Suspension against Trinidadian sprinter Michelle-Lee Ahye for a violation of the IAAF Anti-Doping Rules.”
Ahye, according to the published list, is provisionally suspended for “Whereabouts Failures.”
Ahye, who was a member of Trinidad and Tobago’s Beijing 2015 World Championships 4x100m bronze team, won silver in the women’s 100m at the Pan American Games in Lima Peru on 7 Aug.
Ahye is Trinidad and Tobago’s first-ever female track and field gold medal when she won at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.
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Whereabouts: They have to know where you are 2 hours out of every day, 24 hours a day, 366 days a year so they can randomly test you. The tests are random and you never know when you’re going to be tested. Get injured and decide you’re not going to be at a meet in Europe and they show up at the meet to test you…that’s a violation. Decide to go to a friends wedding at the last minute but forget to inform and they show up to test you…that’s another violation. Get arrested for beating your spouse and they show up to test you but you’re not there.. that’s another violation
Why is it that some of you can’t understand that these tests aren’t scheduled? That athlete has no idea when they are coming to test them. What is really needed are more approved testing sites. If every state in the USA had 4 acceptable sites, the athlete could simply be notified by WADA/USADA/JADCHO to go any site available within a 4 hour period. Just like when people go to the hospital for DUI testing to be drug tested, and the hospital draws the blood and puts the samples in a chain of custody envelop and seals it for the police. It happens every day, at every hospital in America. Why can’t they do this for professional athletes instead of purposefully trying to ruin their careers over a ridiculous whereabout failure?
Whereabout failures are draconian rules that have nothing whatsoever to do with whether or not an athlete has tested positive for drugs. Some athletes are tested 40 times in a year, yet the tester shows up outside of the agreed-upon time of day and WADA tries to pin a whereabouts failure on the athlete. There should be a decrease in the number of tests required for athletes who are repeatedly clean. Testing athletes more than once a month is overkill. If an athlete has been tested over 50 times in the past 2 year, and every test has been negative, why the need to keep beating a dead horse?
Whereabouts: They have to know where you 2 hours out of every day, 24 hours a day, 366 days a year so they can randomly test you. The test are random and you never know when you’re going to be tested. Get injured and decide you’re not going to a meet in Europe, and they show up at the meet to test you…thats a violation. Decide to go a friends wedding at the last minute and forget to inform them…that’s another violation. Get arrested for beating your spouse, and they show up to test you but you’re not there.. that’s another violation
Can the information given be discussed without diving into the old blind patriotic rhetoric, steeped in ignorance, that is so often the default position of certain contributors of a certain citizenship.
So she gets suspended for “whereabout failures” and Christian Coleman gets to go to Doha??? ?
The following USA athletes have been suspended for 3 whereabouts failures. Brianna Rollins, Shawn Crawford, Walter Davis, Reginald Dixon, Marquise Goodwin, Jeremy Hicks, Mark Jelks. Being American has nothing to do with it.
Howard Brown The following USA athletes have been suspended for 3 whereabouts failures. Brianna Rollins, Shawn Crawford, Walter Davis, Reginald Dixon, Marquise Goodwin, Jeremy Hicks, Mark Jelks. Being American has nothing to do with it.
All this talk about Coleman. Dude was tested over 20 times in two years. Jamaica wasn’t even testing its athletes until they were forced to if they wanted to compete in international championships.
Latoya Sweetie Really eeh girl. Only the Americans seems to make honest mistakes in missin drug test.
Too bad 1 of his testing was on USADA for showing up outside of his window ??♂️
“Honest mistake” is one missed test. Not 3.
Julia Haskins-Anderson Missed three drug tests is a honest mistake ??Ok then
Mar Wilks Coleman wasn’t lucky it was an honest mistake. If hers was a mistake she should be fine, let’s see.
it is ware abouts just the same
Marsha Martin be skipped tests he didn’t fail drug tests. Big difference
Your country needs to stand behind you and fight off critics. From Coleman is clean then all other athletes are the same. No one is above the law and Coleman case is no exception than hers.
LYTE@ Rob Taylor exactly the double standard reeks in this sport. She missed her test like Coleman but she’s guilty when is her arbitration. Use his excuse
LYTE@ Rob Taylor exactly the double standard reeks in this sport. She missed her test like Coleman but she’s guilty when is her arbitration. Use his excuse
LYTE@ Rob Taylor exactly the double standard reeks in this sport. She missed her test like Coleman but she’s guilty when is her arbitration. Use his excuse.
@ Rob Taylor exactly the double standard reeks in this sport if we stick to the rules and be fair maybe the athletes won’t
be so confused.
Wow!! Don’t know what to say and this happens at the worse possible time with World Champs just two weeks away.
Ok me we hold a corner and watch the outcome
Interesting…let’s see how this plays out ??
Coleman gets to run because his suspension was a mistake, not because they felt sorry for him.
Omg she’s one ☝️ of the best
Let her run….christian Coleman get to run
Wat a setback
Hope she’s as lucky as Coleman.
Oh no