The reason is that WA rejects all Bahta's results from May 24, 2018 to August 31, 2019, according to Expressen. Bahta was shut down for violating anti-doping rules (too many misses in stay reporting).

However, she was allowed to compete during the investigation during the summer of 2018. During that time, in addition to the European Championship bronze, she took four Swedish Championship gold medals in the terrain Swedish Championships and set a Swedish record for 10,000 meters of road running. She is now getting rid of these medals and records.

- It was quite expected that it would be like this, says Bahta's coach Ulf Björklund to Expressen.

-We appealed this whole story to Cas (the sports arbitration court) but it would cost 200,000 kronor and we could not afford it, unfortunately. Our lawyer had otherwise written it very well, so I think they had approved it. But we could not afford.

The Swedish Athletics Association was criticized for allowing Bahta to compete in the European Championships in Berlin.

- With the information we had then, we saw that there were good opportunities for Meraf to be completely acquitted in the end. With the results in hand, we wish we had handled this in a different way, says Secretary General Stefan Olsson to Expressen.

Bahta has competed sparingly after the shutdown, which ended a year ago. In the Swedish Championships two weeks ago, she took gold in the 10,000 meters.

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