Coleman, 23, had been charged with missing three drugs tests and was facing an automatic one-year ban.<\/p>\n
Usada said it had withdrawn the charge after receiving guidance from the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada).<\/p>\n
Coleman is now free to compete at the World Athletics Championships, beginning in Doha on 28 September.<\/p>\n
The American ran a world-leading time of 9.81 seconds in the Diamond League in California in June.<\/p>\n
Under the ‘whereabouts’ system, athletes must let officials know where they will be for one hour every day as well as details of overnight accommodation and training.<\/p>\n
Failure to do so – a ‘filing failure’ – three times in a 12-month period could lead to a rule violation under the World Anti-Doping code.<\/i><\/p>\n
Usada said clarification from Wada had been sought around the interpretation of the current International Standard for Testing and Investigations (ISTI)<\/p>\n
This concerned the date on which a failure to update an athlete’s changed whereabouts information should be considered to have occurred.<\/p>\n
Usada recorded filing failures for Coleman on 6 June, 2018, 16 January, 2019 and 26 April, 2019.<\/p>\n
Two of the three tests were directed by Usada, while a third was initiated by the Athletics Integrity Unit.<\/p>\n
However, as the ISTI states that filing failures relate back to the first day of the quarter, Coleman contended that his failure to update which was discovered on 6 June, 2018, should relate back to 1 April, 2018.<\/p>\n
That is more than 12 months prior to Coleman’s third filing failure on 26 April, 2019.<\/p>\n
Wada clarified this fact to Usada, resulting in the charge being withdrawn.<\/p>\n
The decision by Usada to drop the charges can still be appealed by Wada or the IAAF, athletics’ governing body.<\/p>\n
If found guilty, Coleman would have faced an automatic one-year ban and would miss the World Championships and the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.<\/p>\n
Coleman had denied the charge and, in a statement to former sprinter Ato Bolden for the NBC network last month, said: “I’m not a guy who takes any supplements at all, so I’m never concerned about taking drugs tests, at any time.”<\/p>\n
Former Great Britain 400m Olympic champion Christine Ohuruogu received a year’s ban in 2006 under the ‘whereabouts’ system for three missed tests.<\/p>\n
Coleman won the US National Championships last month in 9.99 seconds.<\/p>\n
He finished second at the 2017 World Championships in London behind fellow American Justin Gatlin and has a personal best of 9.79, making him the seventh fastest man in history.<\/p>\n
He also set a world record for the 60m when he claimed gold at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham last year and was talked about as a new superstar sprinter in the post-Usain Bolt era.<\/p>\n
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