Doping in Sport - Bi-Weekly Press round-up #134
WADA pushes America to stop the Enhanced Games, an Olympian banned for doping avoids losing his bronze medal and there is a flurry of doping cases in track and field.
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The Kenyan Olympic runner Benard Kibet, who finished fifth in the 10,000m at Paris 2024, has been provisionally suspended due to abnormalities in his Athlete Biological Passport (ABP). “Kibet, 25, is currently ranked sixth in the world in the men’s 10,000m and holds the world record over 10 miles (16.09 km), with a time of 44:02. He reached the finals in each of the last two major global championship,” (link). Another Kenyan runner, the 20-year old Daniel Kinyanjui, has been suspended for five years after testing positive for the blood doping agent CERA, also known as third generation EPO. “The Adverse Analytical Finding and the APF provide clear and compelling evidence of the Athlete’s Use of a Prohibited Substance on multiple occasions, specifically of the Athlete’s Use of CERA” (link).
The Mexican marathon runner Citlali Cristian Mascote, who competed at the Paris Olympics, has been banned for three years after testing positive for octodrine in the second doping case of her career. “The Athlete has previously been found to have committed Anti-Doping Rule Violatons based upon the presence of Oxilofrine and Phenpromethamine in a Sample collected from her on 7 April 2019,” (link).
The Croatian marathon runner Andrej Hladnik, who has a personal best of 2:25:58, has been banned for three years after testing positive for the anabolic agent ostarine. “I only took creatine twice and I have the biggest doubt that it could be contaminated with Ostarin, I got it for free from a seller in a supplement store, 3 packages of 5 grams each,” (link).
The winner and third-place finisher of a prestigious trail running event in Cameroon both failed post-race drug tests. “Yet over the years, the L'Espoir race, as it is also known, has not acquired the worldwide reputation that its difficulty would have allowed it, and has not joined any trail circuit, official or private. Each February, a Cameroon National Championship is organized, with the entire country turning its attention to this event, and an awards ceremony conducted by the Minister of Sports,” (link).