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Sebastian Coe warns Christian Coleman no 'deal' will fast track him to Olympics

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SEBASTIAN COE insists there will be no deals done to allow banned track and field stars to compete in the Tokyo Olympics. World champions Christian Coleman and Salwa Eid Naser are provisionally suspended for each missing three drugs tests in a 12-month period - an offence which carries a two-year ban.

Coleman, who won 100 metres gold in Doha last September, says if the charge against him is upheld he will push for a one-year “deal” to enable him to compete in Japan.

But Lord Coe, boss of World Athletics, dismissed the notion of any athlete getting preferential treatment - no matter their status. “We have to be unflinching on this,” said Coe, who has trebled the governing body’s anti-doping budget for its independent Athletics Integrity Unit

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