Two athletes were suspended for doping-related issues. Auriana Lazraq-Khlass of France has been suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit for whereabouts failures. Meanwhile, Bo Li from China has been suspended for testing positive for the banned performance-enhancing substance oxandrolone metabolite.
Bo Li
The 32-year-old firefighter was tested in competition at the Taiyuhan Marathon. Oxandrolone is an anabolic steroid.
In October 2025, Li requested testing of the B sample. He argued that he did not take any substance and that the food at the host hotel was likely contaminated.
The AIU had the B sample tested, and it also contained oxandrolone.
Additionally, Li suspected that three supplements that he was taking, as well as pigeon meat, may have been the cause of the positive test.
He went as far as paying for his own independent tests. Appealed and wrote extensively that he did not knowingly take a banned-performance enhancing substance.
He was eventually suspended for two years, considering that while he did not prove intent either way, he worked hard and spent his own money trying to prove his innocence. He was retiring from running, starting a family and was of little means. He had nothing to gain.
Otherwise, Li would have been suspended for the standard four years.
Li ran 2:12:04 in Taiyhuan and has a personal best of 2:11:23 from the 2023 Nanchang Marathon.
Auriana Lazraq-Khlass
French heptathlete Auriana Lazraq-Khlass has been suspended for 22 months for whereabouts failures.
The 2024 European silver medallist is accused of failing three times in 12 months to make herself available for testing.
She is suspended from March 26, 2026.
The 27-year-old only contested her third breach, saying that when she tried to update her whereabouts for the following day, it was applied to the same day.
The tribunal argues that she was careless and negligent.
The punishment of a 22-month suspension is slightly less than the potential two-year maximum, while her results going back to 20 November 2025 will be wiped out.
Lazraq-Khlass’s suspension ends in January 2028.
She competed at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, finishing 16th. She finished 12th- and 118th at the 2023 and 2025 World Athletics Championships. Lazraq-Khlass took silver at the Rome European Athletics Championships with a personal best of 6635pts.
