The French Anti-Doping Agency banned Pierre-Ambroise Bosse for 16 months for missing three out-of-competition doping tests in a 12-month period.

Bosse is a world champion in the 800 metre event from the 2017 London World Championships.

The sanction comes after the 31-year-old missed three drug tests between September 2022 and June 2023. 

The first time that he missed a test was on September 25, 2022, when a doping control officer showed up at his home to take a sample within Bosse’s scheduled time slot, but he was not available. He told French news outlet L’Équipe: “I was one foot in training, one foot on holiday.”

In early May last year, authorities tried to contact him, however, he was not available. “I wasn’t worried at that time because I had forgotten the previous one and so, I thought I only had one. At that moment, I gave up completely.”

“I made three mistakes, I accept. It’s true that I haven’t always been the best student when it comes to taking care of my location but, until then, it had never played any tricks on me. I know I should have been more serious but I would like to point out that I have been in the AFLD target group since 2012 and they have all my analyses.”

Bosse owns a best of 1:42.53 which was run at the 2014 Monaco Diamond League meet. It currently stands as the French national record.

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