The lawyer for Australian Olympian Peter Bol has challenged the interpretation of lab data that saw the Australian Athletics poster boy test positive to a performance enhancing drug. Bol, who finished…
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Blessing Okagbare faces fresh four-year ban for doping violation
by correspondent February 21, 2022Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare, who was, at the weekend, banned for 10 years by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) of World Athletics for doping offences, may be further punished by the…
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Blessing Okagbare : Hires lawyers to defend her doping case
by James Koech February 20, 2022The 2008 Beijing Silver Olympic medalist Blessing Okagbare, who two days ago was banned for 10 years by Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for alleged multiple breaches of anti-doping rules, has…
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Second Russian banned for three years for doping offence
by correspondent October 29, 2021Russia’s Alexander Bryukhankov has been banned for three years for doping offence by the World Triathlon. Bryukhankov becomes the second Russian athlete after Igor Polyanskiy was also banned traces of…
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The Athletics Integrity Unit has has banned the reigning Athens Marathon champion Samuel Kalalei for four years after testing positive for blood-booster EPO. Kalalei’s urine sample, which was collected after…
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The Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK) has released more names of athletes suspended for using performance enhancing banned substances as the doping menace monster rears its ugly head. The ADAK…
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Banned athlete-policeman Brendon Keenan wins Tauranga International Marathon.
by correspondent September 23, 2018He’s serving a four-year suspension from ‘all sport’, yet Rotorua policeman Brendon Keenan was still able to compete, and win his age-group title, in Saturday’s Tauranga International Marathon. Keenan was…
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Kenyan politician calls for report into progress of anti-doping law following positive tests
by correspondent September 1, 2018A Kenyan Member of Parliament has called for a report on the anti-doping law as the country attempts to tackle a crisis following several positive tests in athletics. Kathuri Murungi, a…
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The four-year ban for marathoner Vincent Chepsiror Kipchirir was upheld on Thursday night, becoming the latest Kenyan athlete to be caught in the web of a crisis that threatens to…
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Kipyegon Bett will Loose World Championship Medal if confirmed positive
by correspondent August 26, 2018Reigning world 800m bronze medalist Kipyegon Bett is poised to loose his medal to Briton Kyle Langford in the championships held last year in England. Bett, the former world under…