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FILE - Workua Getachew of Ethiopia, left, winner of the women's 3000m steeplechase final hugs the second-placed Zerfe Wondemagegn, also of Ethiopia, during the Diamond League athletics meeting at the Louis II stadium in Monaco, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. Wondemagegn, who reached the 3,000-meter steeplechase final at the Tokyo Olympics, and narrowly missed the world championship podium last year, has been banned for five years for doping after testing positive for two banned substances. Wondemagegn admitted breaking anti-doping rules after samples she gave flagged up traces of testosterone and another substance, EPO, which can help athletes' blood transport more oxygen, an Athletics Integrity Unit ruling published Monday, April 22, 2024, said. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole, file)

Ethiopian distance runner and Olympic finalist Zerfe Wondemagegn banned 5 years for doping

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Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, of Belarus, runs in the women's 100-meter run at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Japan, on July 30, 2021. An Olympic track coach who tried to force Krystsina Tsimanouskaya home from the Tokyo Games to Belarus where she feared for her safety was banned from the sport for five years on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Coach who tried to force Belarus sprinter home from Tokyo Olympics is banned for 5 years

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, of Belarus, runs in the women's 100-meter run at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Japan, on July 30, 2021. An Olympic track coach who tried to force Krystsina Tsimanouskaya home from the Tokyo Games to Belarus where she feared for her safety was banned from the sport for five years on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Coach who tried to force Belarus sprinter home from Tokyo Olympics is banned for 5 years

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Botswana's Nijel Amos celebrates winning the men's 800m during the Diamond League in Doha, Qatar, Friday, May 3, 2019. Amos has been banned for three years for doping in an Athletics Integrity Unit ruling, it was announced Wednesday, May 3, 2023. He tested positive for the banned substance GW1516 last year and received a reduction on the standard four-year ban because he admitted the charge. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, file)

Olympic silver medalist Nijel Amos banned for doping

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Belarusian Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who arrived in Poland fearing reprisals at home after criticizing her coaches at the Tokyo Games, holds up an Olympic-related T-shirt with the slogan "I Just Want to Run" after her news conference in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. The Belarusian track coach who tried to force the sprinter out of the Tokyo Olympics and back to Belarus after she was critical of the team has been charged with breaching the sport's integrity standards. The Athletics Integrity Unit announced the charges against Yury Maisevich on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Belarus coach who removed sprinter from Olympics charged

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

Long jumper accused of false information to get Olympic spot

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FILE - Diana Kipyokei, of Kenya, holds a Boston Marathon championship trophy following a news conference, on Oct. 12, 2021, in Boston. Kipyokei was suspended on Friday Oct. 14, 2022 after testing positive for doping at the 2021 race she won and allegedly obstructing an investigation. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

2021 Boston Marathon winner charged with doping, could be stripped of title

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

20 athletes banned from Olympic track under testing rules

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In this Sunday, July 28, 2019, file photo, Shelby Houlihan crosses the finish line as she wins the women's 5,000-meter run at the U.S. Championships athletics meet, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Record-setting American runner blames pork burrito for positive steroid test

By Andy Kostka - The Washington Times

FILE - In this file photo dated Saturday, Aug. 29, 2015, Belarus' Marina Arzamasova celebrates after winning the women's 800m final at the World Athletics Championships at the Bird's Nest stadium in Beijing, China. Former world champion runner Arzamasova has been banned for four years for doping after testing positive for a substance that is popular with body builders. The 32-year-old had been provisionally suspended after testing positive in 2019. The four-year ban dates to the initial suspension and concludes on July 28, 2023. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Former 800 world champ Arzamasova gets 4-year doping ban

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World champion runner Naser wins doping case on technicality

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

In this Sept. 28, 2019, file photo, Christian Coleman, of the United States, poses after winning the men's 100 meter race during the World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar. Reigning world champion Coleman insists a simple phone call from drug testers while he was out Christmas shopping could’ve prevented the latest misunderstanding about his whereabouts, one he fears could lead to a suspension. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File) **FILE**

Christian Coleman, world’s fastest man, suspended for missing doping tests

By James Ellingworth and Pat Graham - Associated Press

In this Sept. 28, 2019, file photo, Christian Coleman, of the United States, poses after winning the men's 100 meter race during the World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar. Reigning world champion Coleman insists a simple phone call from drug testers while he was out Christmas shopping could’ve prevented the latest misunderstanding about his whereabouts, one he fears could lead to a suspension. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File) **FILE**

World’s fastest man suspended for missing doping tests

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH and PAT GRAHAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Thursday, March 1, 2018, Russia's Danil Lysenko makes an attempt in the men's high jump final at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Birmingham, England. The president of Russia’s track and field federation Dmitry Shlyakhtin was suspended Thursday Nov. 21, 2019, on suspicion of obstructing an anti-doping investigation related to Lysenko, who allegedly presented fake medical records. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, FILE)

Top Russian track official suspended in obstruction case

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African champion Tsegu suspended for positive doping test

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FILE - In this Friday, May 9, 2014 file photo, Kemi Adekoya of Bahrain gestures after winning the 400m hurdles at the IAAF Diamond League in the Qatari capital Doha. Former world indoor 400-meter champion Kemi Adekoya has been banned for doping in the latest drug case to hit Bahrain’s stable of elite African-born runners, it was announced Friday, July 19, 2019. The Athletics Integrity Unit, which oversees doping cases in track and field, says Adekoya tested positive for the banned steroid stanozolol. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal, File)

Former world indoor champ Adekoya gets 4-year doping ban

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Asian Games champ Keyhani banned for doping

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017 file photo, Russian track federation vice president Andrei Silnov speaks during a news conference in Moscow, Russia. The Russian track federation said Wednesday June 12, 2019, that senior vice president Andrei Silnov, the 2008 Olympic gold medalist in the high jump, is facing suspension in a doping case, another blow to the country’s hopes of being reinstated in time for the world championships. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Russian track and field faces wave of disciplinary cases

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 2, 2018, file photo, United States' Jarrion Lawson makes an attempt in the men's long jump final at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Birmingham, Britain. Paul Doyle, the agent for Jarrion Lawson told The Associated Press on Friday, May 31, 2019, that the American long jumper and sprinter is expected to receive a four-year suspension for a failed doping test they maintain is tied to contaminated meat. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Agent: US long jumper expects doping ban; tainted beef cited

By PAT GRAHAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016 file photo, junior athletes run past a sign for Athletics Kenya at the Discovery cross country races, an annual race held to identify up-and-coming new young talent, in Eldoret, Kenya. Kenyan athletes are the target of nearly a quarter of all out-of-competition doping tests in track and field, a statistic that underlines how much suspicion has been cast over the most successful distance-running nation in the world. The number was revealed Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 by the head of the Athletics Integrity Unit, which handles anti-doping for world track and field body the IAAF.(AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

WADA report: Kenya doping serious, not institutionalized

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press