When stars like Jacob Kiplimo and Beatrice Chebet force an uncomfortable question about trust...
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Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo and Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet have something in common. In their respective events, they are the...
Twinkle Chaudhary was provisionally suspended, now takes a four-year ban for doping
As it was reported in June 2025, Indian middle-distance runner Twinkle Chaudhary was, at the time, suspended for testing positive for the metabolites of...
Media Release: Olympic sprinter Fred Kerley banned two years for whereabouts failures
Fred Kerely, two-time Olympic medallist and three-time world champion, finds himself in trouble again. This time with the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU)
The 30-year-old...
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...
