{"id":1268104,"date":"2022-12-20T15:24:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T15:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/20\/kenya-doping-three-athletes-banned-for-breaking-anti-doping-rules\/"},"modified":"2022-12-20T15:24:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T15:24:57","slug":"kenya-doping-three-athletes-banned-for-breaking-anti-doping-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/20\/kenya-doping-three-athletes-banned-for-breaking-anti-doping-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya doping: Three athletes banned for breaking anti-doping rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sprinter Mark Otieno is one of the three Kenyan athletes to receive a ban from the Athletics Integrity Unit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Three Kenyan athletes have been banned for a collective period of eight years after breaking anti-doping rules.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has banned marathon runners Alice Jepkemboi Kimutai and Johnstone Kibet Maiyo for three years, and sprinter Mark Otieno for two.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Otieno, 29, tested positive for the banned anabolic steroid Methasterone moments before the 100m heats at the Tokyo Olympic Games.<\/span><\/p>\n

It meant he was not allowed to compete.<\/span><\/p>\n

Otieno, a three-time national 100m champion, will have his ban backdated from the Games and end in July 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

The suspension for November\u2019s Porto marathon winner Kimutai \u2013 who tested positive for the male hormone testosterone \u2013 began on 16 November.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maiyo\u2019s ban started on 20 July for returning a positive test for erythropoietin (EPO).<\/span><\/p>\n

Last month the east African country <\/span>avoided a sanction by governing body World Athletics<\/span> \u2013 despite having 55 athletes serving suspensions \u2013 after committing to spend $25m over the next five years to combat doping.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kenya\u2019s sports minister Ababu Namwamba then announced they intended to criminalise doping in athletics in an attempt to bring an end to a string of cases in the sport.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sprinter Mark Otieno is one of the three Kenyan athletes to receive a ban from the Athletics Integrity Unit Three Kenyan athletes have been banned for a collective period of eight years after breaking anti-doping rules. The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has banned marathon runners Alice Jepkemboi Kimutai and Johnstone Kibet Maiyo for three years, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1268105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}