The latest Kenyan athlete to be banned for doping is mountain runner Mark Kangogo; making him the 21 Kenyan athlete to be sanctioned for doping infraction just this year. The AIU said in a statement on Tuesday that Kangogo had been banned for three years after tests showed the presence of two prohibited substances in […]
The 31 years old Ethiopian marathon runner, Getaye Fisseha Gelaw has been banned for six years for taking ban substance erythropoietin (EPO); Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has announced. AIU did not buy into Getaye colourful submittion. The Ethiopian distance runner argued that following a September 2021 injury, colleagues had advised him to use painkillers which […]
Despite Kazakhstan restrictions to only two athletes at last Tokyo Olympics after their historic of losing six gold medalist in the past Olympics due to doping; six of their weightlifters have now been found to have tested positive to prohibited substances. The banned six weightlifters include the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games bronze medallist Igor Son […]
In the latest suspension announced by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), the Kenyan marathon runner, Racheal Mutgaa, has been banned for three years for testing positive for testosterone. In a statement shared by AIU on Twitter, samples picked from the marathoner showed presence and use of a prohibited substance. “Therefore, on 3 August 2021, the […]
After 2012 Olympics re-testing, the Slovenia javelin record holder Martina Ratej has bagged two years ban by Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) after prohibited clostebol substances was found in her sample. The ban take effect from 9 March 2020. All her results from 9 August 2012 to 9 August 2014 are disqualified. Ratej was provisional suspended […]
Sha’carri Richardson has accepted her ban and her subsequent exclusion from the US Tokyo Olympics bound team after tested positive to marijuana. “I want to take responsibility for my actions,” she told Savannah Guthrie in an exclusive interview on Friday. “I know what I did, I know what I’m supposed to do … and I […]
It’s no longer new that American 200m champion, Gabrielle Thomas is the second fastest woman ever over the 200m. But most people forgot the same Gabby was provisional suspended for alleged whereabouts failure but later cleared by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU). She was actually banned in May by the AIU for allegedly missing three […]
In a very controversial ruling by Court Of Arbitration (CAS) today, the Bahrain’s Salwa Eid Nasser, the reigning 400m world champion has been blocked from fixturing in this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, by handed her two years ban. Thereby partially upheld the decision issued by the World Athletics Disciplinary Tribunal on October 14, […]
(CAS) has rejected appeals from El Mahjoub Dazza and Gomathi Marimuthu against their respective four-year doping suspensions. Morocco’s marathon runner, El Mahjoub Dazza and Indian 800m runner Gomathi Marimuthu who were both banned in 2020 by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), but later appealed against their sanctions to the Court of Arbitration (CAS); their appeal […]
Kenyan long-distance runner Patrick Siele has been banned for three-and-a-half years for legged it when anti-doping officials came to collect his sample, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Thursday. Siele is the latest in a long line of Kenyan athletes to be sanctioned in recent years, including 2008 Olympic 1,500m champion Asbel Kiprop, former […]
A Moroccan naturalised Bahraini distance runner Hassan Chani has been banned for four years for doping and stripped of his 2018 Asian Games gold medal, the Athletics Integrity Unit said Thursday. Changes in Chani’s blood values in his biological passport led to the charge, the AIU said. Chani was disqualified from all of his races […]
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