Bahrain were only allowed to send a maximum of 10 track and field athletes to Paris as part of an anti-doping punishment.
WORLD ATHLETICS HAS belatedly revealed that Bahrain could only send a maximum of 10 athletes to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games as a part of a punishment for ‘serious anti-doping rule violations’.
The AIU opened their investigation following the Tokyo Olympics where there were “serious anti-doping rule violations committed by two athletes… for homologous blood transfusions”. The BAA accepted the charges against it, as well as penalties including a 10-athlete limit at the 2024 Olympics and at the 2025 World Championships; a ban on recruiting foreign athletes or applying for transfers of allegiance until 2027; a commitment to spend up to €6.5 million over four years on anti-doping measures; and the establishment and funding of an academy to prioritise the development of local athletes.
Separate to this investigation, Naser served a two-year suspension from 2021 to 2023 for drug-testing whereabouts violations.
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