Salwa Eid Naser will miss the Olympic Games this summer after the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld an appeal by World Athletics against a ruling by the federation's own disciplinary tribunal which had cleared Nigerian-born Naser of missing doping tests.
The 23-year-old ran 48.14 for 400m to win the world title in Doha in 2019 – a time that only world record-holder Marita Koch and Jarmila Kratochvilova from the 1980s have beaten.
Naser was provisionally suspended last year after breaking rules relating to her availability to undergo anti-doping testing. But the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) disciplinary tribunal ruled in October that Naser had not violated anti-doping rules.
However CAS has now overturned that decision and ruled that the two-year ban should begin immediately.
The Nigerian-born sprinter will however keep her world title from 2019.
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