The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced on Wednesday (22nd) its big hammer of life ban on Iraqi national sprint coach Karokh Salih Mohammed for giving an athlete the prohibited substances stanozolol and clenbuterol without the athlete’s knowledge. In what looks like a bizarre story the athlete in question, Danah Hussein was still ban for three years. Hussein is a two-time […]
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 […]
Stringent new rules on out-of-competition testing are being planned by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) – and those who fail the test will face exclusion from the Olympic Games. “If we can’t get in to test, you’re out – that’s what is needed,” said Antonio Urso, the newly elected general secretary of the IWF. “That’s […]
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 […]
Sighting escalation of stress fracture which is medically called complication can be frightening by all and sundry. Mere standing or simple innocuous jump run by an athlete may bring instant fracture. When this happens, the big questions that are always followed are: why will a trained athletes’ limp succumb to fracture suddenly by mere standing […]
Finally, the African 100m silver medalist and South Africa, Carina Horn has breaths a sigh of relief after completing her two years doping ban. Recounting her ordeal, “from an emotional perspective, the last two years had been tough. There were many evenings that I could not stop myself from crying as it felt as if […]
Another Kenya star athlete has been found guilty again for doping despite despirate attempt by Kenya authority to curb the doping excess. Philip Cheruiyot Kangogo , a 36-year-old Kenyan long distance runner and the winner of the 2015 Barcelona Marathon has been suspended for two years ( from 31 April 2019 to July 31 2021) […]
In a genuine way to clean the sport from doping and help those who are silently facing sexual harassment and other form of misconduct to speak up; the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has opened a whistle blower Hot line. The statement released by AIU reads: The Athletics Integrity Unit operates one of the most universal […]
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