<p>LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The fastest man in the world, American sprinter Christian Coleman, will miss the Tokyo Olympics after failing Friday in an appeal to overturn his ban for missed doping tests.</p>
<p>The Court of Arbitration for Sport did cut the 100-meter world champion’s ban from two years to 18 months, but the ban won’t expire until November, three months after the Olympics.</p>
<p>The panel of three judges said 18 months “was the appropriate sanction in the circumstances” because Coleman was not entirely at fault for one of his three missed tests in a one-year period.</p>
<p>They said it was “reasonable for the athlete to expect” a telephone call from a sample collection official to return to his apartment during the 60-minute period he said he would be available on Dec. 9, 2019.</p>
<p>A call such is that is not required within the anti-doping rules, the judges acknowledged,.</p>
<p>The judges also noted Coleman “should have been on ‘high-alert’ on that day, given the two existing ‘whereabout’ failures against him.”</p>
<p>Coleman had challenged the two-year ban imposed last October by an independent tribunal at track and field’s Athletics Integrity Unit. </p>
<p>He will now be clear to compete in the full 2022 season which includes the world championships in Eugene, Oregon.</p>
<p>Coleman won the 2019 world title in Doha, Qatar, after being cleared on a technicality to run because of missed tests. </p>
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