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Salwa Eid Naser, world 400m champion, cleared in drug-testing case

Salwa Eid Naser, the world 400m champion from Bahrain, was cleared of a potential suspension in a drug-testing case that could have kept her out of the Tokyo Olympics.

A tribunal dismissed a missed drug test after the tester knocked on a storage unit door rather than her apartment in confusion of her location.

On Oct. 3, 2019, Naser won the world title in Doha in 48.14 seconds, the third-fastest time in history and the fastest in 34 years.

On June 5, Naser was provisionally suspended until a future hearing on her case for missing three drug tests in a 12-month span, which normally constitutes a one-to-two-year suspension.