Anti-Doping

News, stories, editorials and opinion on the state of doping in the sport of athletics

Brazilian pole vault champion banned for presence of ostarine glucuronide

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has banned 2016 Rio Olympic Games pole vault champion Thiago Braz for 16 months for the presence of ostarine...

Teenage sprinter, Issamade Asinga, banned four years for doping

Teenager, Issamade Asinga, from Suriname has been banned by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for four years for an anti-doping rule violation. Asinga was...

Allegedly, Peter Bol’s phone had a screenshot of a note between drug dealer Conte...

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Marathon runner Kemei Elias Kiprono added to the list of 81 Kenyans suspended for...

© Copyright - 2024 - Athletics Illustrated Kenyan marathon runner, Kemei Elias Kiprono, has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), for...

Kenyan Commonwealth Games bronze medallist, Rodgers Kwemoi, banned for six years for doping

© Copyright - 2024 - Athletics Illustrated Rodgers Kwemoi Chumo of Kenya has been banned by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for abnormalities in...

Kenyan doper, Stephen Kipchirchir Kiplagat, suspended four years

© Copyright - 2024 - Athletics Illustrated Thirty-four-year-old Kenyan doper, Stephen Kipchirchir Kiplagat, has been suspended for four years by the Anti-Doping Agency of...

Russian doper Ekaterina Poistogova-Guliyev to appeal suspension to Court of Arbitration for Sport

In April 2024, it was reported by Athletics Illustrated that Russian Ekaterina Poistogova-Guliyev is likely to be stripped of her London silver medal for...

Josephine Chepkoech, a 2:22:38 marathon runner from Kenya, provisionally suspended for testosterone

Josephine Chepkoech, a 2:22:38 marathon runner from Kenya, has been provisionally suspended for testosterone by the Athletics Integrity Unit. In February, the 35-year-old clocked...

Athletics Kenya warns athletes four days in advance of 1st deadline to comply with...

Athletics Kenya published a letter to its athletes on April 30 that they have by May 3 to take their first of three pre-Olympic...

Tunisia joins Angola, Russia and International Fitness and Bodybuilding Federation as non-compliant with WADA

Tunisia's legal non-compliance Now officially, Tunisia is considered non-compliant with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) code. According to WADA, the Tunisian Anti-Doping Organization's legal system...