Pierre-Ambroise Bosse, 2017 world champion in the 800m and removed from the slopes for four months, received a one-year suspension from the French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) for three location faults between September 2022 and June 2023 , according to a decision published Wednesday.
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This suspension comes as the athlete, holder of the French 800m record, aged 31, announced in December 2023 that he was retiring a few months before the Paris Olympics.
Operated more than a year ago on a tendon in his right thigh, he experienced a recurrence and had to stop again in April 2023, a “recurrence which had broken the dynamic”, he explained to the Team when he announced his retirement.
He was notified by the AFLD three times of breaches of his whereabouts obligations between September 2022 and June 2023. From three breaches, athletes are sanctioned.
In 2019, Pierre-Ambroise Bosse was sentenced to a fine of 1,000 euros for a violent drunken brawl, one night in August 2017 in Gironde, during which he was seriously injured in the face, which led to an end of premature season.
After his world title, Bosse never regained the state of grace of August 2017 in London.
From injuries to changes of coaches added to the fight in Gironde, his image had been seriously tarnished and his morale greatly affected. At the end of 2020 it even lost its equipment supplier (Puma).
Before his world title, the native of Nantes (1.85 m, 68 kg) finished at the foot of the podium (4th) at the Rio Olympics in 2016 but was eliminated before the final during those in Tokyo in July 2021.