Lawrence Cherono, from Kenya, when he won the Boston Marathon in 2019. Photo: AP
The Kenyan Lorenzo Cherono and the American Randolph Ross have been provisionally suspended and will not be able to compete in the World Athletics Championships which takes place in Eugene, Oregon, where they became the first doping cases in the contest
Athletic Unit Integrity (AIU) has confirmed the sanction that will prevent them from taking to the ring this Sunday, when Cherono was supposed to compete in the marathon and Ross would have competed in the 400m heats.
Lawrence Cherono was also the winner of the 2021 Valencia Marathon.
In a statement, the AIU explained that the Kenyan tested positive trimetazidinea drug that is usually used to prevent angina pectoris that appears on the list of banned substances and that was detected in a control he was subjected to on May 23.
The AIU said it was notified of the positive of the winner of the Boston and Chicago marathons in 2019, 33 and fourth at the Tokyo Olympics last year, by the laboratories of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Tuesday, the day in which Cherono went to Eugene, the athlete was informed of his situation as soon as he arrived in the United States and on Friday he filed an unsuccessful appeal.
Randolph Ross was suspended for “tampering with anti-doping procedures.
Ross, 21, and a member of the 4x400m relay that won gold at the Tokyo Olympics (although he only played the knockout stage), was suspended for “manipulation of doping procedures” by missing a check and suffered the same fate., or bad luck in this case, that his Kenyan colleague explained the entity.
The Munich-based AUI was created in 2017 by the International Athletics Federation, World Athletics, and regretted that the results in both cases were disclosed 47 days after their respective checks, as WADA rules require laboratories to report them no more than 20 days after the results are known.
Source: ANSA
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