If an athlete cannot be located three times in a 365-day period, he is penalized as if he had tested positive in an anti-doping control;

the rule leaves no room for doubt.

For years, the International Athletics Federation (IAAF) has argued the control of the location of its athletes as another evidence of a fair competition and that utopia would be true if there were not so many and so notorious exceptions.

Reigning 100-meter world champion

Christian Coleman

is an excellent example, but as of Tuesday there is a better one: 400-meter world champion

Salwa Eid Naser

.

According to the IAAF's own Athletics Integrity Unit, Naser will not be sanctioned, that is, he will keep his title thanks to a curious argument.

Architecturally curious.

Eid Naser, a Nigerian-born athlete competing for Bahrain, lives in a strange building and that is his salvation.

The key is in one of the controls where they could not locate it and in an address: floor number 11, building 964, block 908, 833 street in Riffa, in the emirate.

To get to that apartment, the sprinter's residence, the doctor in charge of doping control had to overcome two obstacles and could not pass the second.

The first was simply a mistake.

Eid Naser had reported that he lived in building 964, but in reality he lived in 954, a ruling that the doctors who had carried out other controls had already noted in his file.

Issue resolved.

But the second obstacle was more difficult.

In front of building 954 there were two doors, one made of wood and the other one made of glass, and, next to them, two numbers, 11 and 12. For one hour, from seven to eight in the morning on April 12 In 2019, the doctor hammered on the wooden door with the number 11 believing that this was the Eid Naser flat, but he was wrong.

Actually what I had to do was go through the glass door -which is always open-, enter the building and, once inside, look for apartment 11. Apparently the two numbers 11 and 12 that are outside the farm only do reference to the two storage rooms that are behind the wooden door and have nothing to do with the residence of Eid Naser.

"The door numbering was extremely confusing. He is experienced and responsible and it is obvious that he was nervous and willing to do everything he could to locate and test the athlete," said the IAAF Athletics Integrity Unit in resolving the Naser case trying to exonerate the doctor responsible for the control.

Because in reality he tried everything to locate the athlete.

He looked in his file for his cell phone number, but it was old;

He returned several times during the day to the same building to knock on the wooden door again;

and he even went to the next National Stadium for Bahreim to try to find Eid Naser training there.

But he was unsuccessful in any of his attempts and the 'missing test' ended up being recorded.

At the conclusion of the case, the Integrity Unit admonished the runner for the difficulties she put in to be found - "Naser does not help herself," he stated "- but could not do more than free her. The system was left again. challenged by a curious argumentation, architecturally curious.

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