Ethiopian trio Ketema, Azimeraw, Kumeshi head women’s field in Hamburg
A strong Ethiopian trio will head the women's elite field of the 40th Haspa Marathon Hamburg on 26th April. Tigist Ketema, Degitu Azimeraw and...
More Kenyan athletes have been banned for doping-related offences, including 45-year-old Rita Jeptoo, previously...
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The integrity crisis in Kenyan sport shows no sign of easing.
The Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK) has...
Ethiopian Diribe Welteji Kejelcha suspended two years for missing doping tests
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has banned Ethiopian Diribe Welteji Kejelcha for 2 years for Failing to submit to Doping Control. The...
Kevin Samperu and Pooja Aatmaram are suspended for three years for doping-related offences
Previously suspended Kevin Samperu from Kenya, and Pooja Aatmaram from India have now had their appealable and provisional suspensions confirmed as three-year bans.
Kevin...
Florida man charged for supplying Marvin Bracy-Williams with banned drugs
A Florida man was charged on Tuesday with supplying banned performance-enhancing substances to an athlete in a case involving the nearly four-year ban given...
Nigerian distance runner Blessing Solomon suspended three years for doping
Warren Buffett once said, "Price is what you pay; value is what you get." This aphorism may apply when doping control nabs a Marathon...
Russian Nathalia Kholodilina’s positive tests from 2014 come back to haunt her at age...
Nathalia Kholodilina, a Russian racewalker, tested positive in September 2014 for the banned performance-enhancing substance Metenolone.
She was subsequently served with a two-year suspension.
When...
Stalemate between the Trump government and the World Anti-Doping Agency
The case of the 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive for trimetazidine weeks before the 2020 (2021) Tokyo Olympic Games has come back to...
Kenyan Bernard Kibet Koech suspended for doping for four years
Kenyan distance runner Bernard Kibet Koech has been suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for four years for doping. The 26-year-old Olympian's Athletics...
Canadian Alysha Newman and Indian Pooja Aatmaram suspended by Athletics Integrity Unit
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Canadian pole vaulter Alysha Newman and Indian high jumper Pooja Aatmaram have been suspended by the Athletics...
