French Olympic Taekwondo Champion Laurin Banned over ‘No Shows’
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Althéa Laurin, the French Olympic champion of taekwondo, was suspended for 20 months by the French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) for three violations of its anti-doping tracking obligations.
The French Olympic champion Althéa Laurin was suspended twenty months by the French Anti-Doping Agency. A serious break in her career. The Olympic champion of taekwondo at the Olympic Games 2024 in Paris (+67 kg), Althéa Laurin (24 years old) was suspended twenty months by the French Anti-Doping Agency, RMC Sport reported. The French woman was punished for three "no-shows" in just a few months in 2025. While her suspension began on 9 February la…
On 10 August 2024, Althéa Laurin awarded the 16th Olympic gold medal of the French delegation, which was beating her record of titles. Two years later, the 24-year-old French Taekwondoist was again in the news, but for less good reasons. RMC Sport revealed that she was suspended by the French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) for a period of twenty months for three "no-shows" in 2025, i.e. she did not appear on three occasions in an anti-doping check. S…
Suspended twenty months by the AFLD for having accumulated three failures to locate obligations during anti-doping checks during a twelve-month period, the Olympic champion of taekwondo pleaded negligence with RMC Sport. Her qualifying window for the Olympics 2028 is expected to be very small.
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