While he has been temporarily suspended since last June, 26-year-old French sprinter Amaury Golitin will be suspended for four years, according to information from L’Equipe.
It’s not the end of a career yet, but it could look like it. Aged 26, Amaury Golitin will soon be suspended for four years, reveals The team in its Friday edition. At the beginning of the week, the native of Cayenne received a letter from the French Agency for the Fight against Doping meaning a suspension of five years (four for falsification, one for breaches of doping controls), which could be reduced to four years if he accepted the sanction, which he did. The French athlete, provisionally suspended since June 2022, will therefore not be able to appeal before June 2026, if the AFLD College does indeed validate this decision at the end of March.
The sprinter thus pays for the many mistakes made in recent years. After twice forgetting to report his whereabouts in the ADAMS software (due to his unfamiliarity with the software and computer bugs, according to him), Golitin missed two unannounced doping controls in the first part of 2021, and he was therefore subject to a suspension in the event of a new “no show”. In June of the same year, when he was in the evening in Paris, and not at INSEP as indicated in the ADAMS software, he just arrived for the control, but it was still considered a failure to comply with its whereabouts obligations
Ready to do anything to participate in the Olympics
Golitin then falsified Uber invoices and bank statements to justify a trip for a “serious” problem in the capital. The sprinter was indeed ready for anything, even if it meant cheating, to participate in the Tokyo Olympics with the French relay. But he ultimately did not take part due to tensions with the staff.
Suspended for nine months now, the one who has a record at 10″07 over 100m since 2018 regrets these mistakes and does not know if he will one day resume the thread of his career. “It’s something I did in 5 minutes. I was not aware of the risks I was taking, he confides to The team. I regret all that. I certainly saved time, I was able to do the Olympics but in the end I will lose four (years). When you see all this, it was not at all clever. I don’t want to stop on that. I’ll be 29 when my suspension ends. I don’t know if it’s a blessing in disguise. I will rest my body and especially my knee. It will push back my longevity. But will I have the mind to hold out until then? »
