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SPORTS Thursday 11 april 2019
French marathon runner Calvin suspended in doping case

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN people arrived and took
AP Sports Writer me by the arm, saying:
PARIS (AP) — European ‘French police, where is
marathon silver medalist Dahmani?’”
Clemence Calvin was pro- According to Calvin, she
visionally suspended by the led them to Dahmani and
French anti-doping agency one of the three persons
on Wednesday for alleged- hit her on the arm as she
ly obstructing a doping test was handing her 2-year-old
last month in Morocco. child over to her husband.
Calvin denies any wrong- “My little one fell on the floor
doing and claims she was and started to cry,” she
brutalized by testers who said. “My husband started
pretended to be police of- to argue with these people
ficers when she was briefly while I stepped back.”
stopped in the city of Mar- Calvin said the family then
rakech on March 27. went to a pharmacy to
Calvin, who did not get have their son checked
tested after the altercation, and went back to their
has filed a lawsuit in Moroc- place around midnight af-
co against the testers for ter dinner. She insisted that
violence and threats. the people who stopped
The French anti-doping her in the street never iden-
agency’s secretary gener- tified themselves as testers.
al, Mathieu Teoran, denied Lawyer Arnaud Pericard
Calvin’s allegations that said Calvin — in addition
the agents were violent to the obstruction that led
and did not identify them- to her provisional suspen-
selves as sample collectors. sion — was also notified by
Calvin was in Morocco with the AFLD of a “no-show”
her husband — the athlete for missing a doping test at
Samir Dahmani — to train her place after 8 p.m. the
for this Sunday’s Paris Mara- same day. Pericard said he
thon. Her lawyers said they has gathered testimonies
will ask the Council of State from Calvin’s neighbors in
— France’s highest admin- Marrakech that people
istrative court — for an ur- presenting themselves
gent ruling to have the ban as French police officers
lifted. “It’s been 12 years knocked on their doors in
that I have been a top-lev- the evening as they tried to
el athlete,” Calvin said dur- locate the couple.
ing the news conference. Silver medalist in the women’s marathon at the European Athletics Championships in Berlin, Under the whereabouts
“I never had any problem France’s Clemence Calvin adresses reporters during a media conference in Paris Wednesday, rules, athletes must make
with the AFLD. What I went April 10, 2019. themselves available for
through on March 27 was Associated Press out-of-competition testing
everything but a test. It was marathon at the 2018 Eu- dergarten when the inci- band went to buy a cake for one hour every day and
very violent.” ropean championships in dent happened. for my son’s birthday,” she face suspensions if they
The 28-year-old athlete, Berlin, said she had just re- “We had a walk in the said. “I was in the street, miss three tests over a pe-
who finished second in the trieved her son at the kin- neighborhood, my hus- playing with kids. Some riod of 12 months.q

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365 — Shots by Avalanche 35-4-1 — Record when the the postseason since com-
forward Nathan MacKin- Nashville Predators scored ing into the league in ‘91-
non, who led the league. the first goal of the game 92. 16 — Game-winning
325 — Goals scored by this season. 33 — Age of playoff goals for 39-year-
Tampa Bay , the most by Alex Ovechkin, who be- old Toronto forward Patrick
a team in 23 years. 246 — came the first player in 44 Marleau. 12 — Years since
Shots by Tampa Bay for- years to lead the NHL in the league had six players
ward Nikita Kucherov, who goals at age 33 or older. reach 100 points. The list
led the league in points with The last one to do so was includes three players in
128. 97 — Amount of hat Phil Esposito, who had 61 at the postseason: Kucherov,
tricks this season. It’s tied 33 in 1974-75. Brad Marchand of Boston
for 11th-most in NHL history. 22-14 — Margin Vegas out- and Sidney Crosby of Pitts-
2 — Wins by the Lightning, scored San Jose in a sec- burgh. Connor McDavid
tying the ‘95-96 Red Wings ond-round matchup last and Leon Draisaitl of Ed- Dallas Stars goaltender Ben Bishop (30) deflects a shot by the
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