Meraf Bahta won the bronze medal at 10,000 metres in the european CHAMPIONSHIPS in athletics. She should never have been allowed to start.

Bahta had three misses in the ‘whereabouts’ requirements, and had thus violated a dopningsregel. It is in the first and ultimately her responsibility.

the Swedish athletic association the first error was that not all alarm clocks howled for the first and second dots. The last and the major error was that the Bahta got the start.

can say that Bahta during the european CHAMPIONSHIPS in Berlin was not turned off and thus had its full right to compete. Tell it to the German four Alina Reh.

Bahta-the deal rolls on into 2019. The Swedish sports dopningskommission calls for a one-year suspension. A conviction should be doing to Bahta becomes of its bronze.

During the 2019 can, therefore, invisible in the EM-the race to be moved up in the rankings and get a bronze medal in arrears. Compare the feeling to sprint home a medal before a screaming home crowd.

Regardless of future output, it is already clear that where the race had two big losers. Third grade Bahta did an impressive race but was not able to rejoice fully over it. Four Reh did not live to see it, which would have been a highlight in his career.