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Yahoo
12 hours ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Marathon world record-holder Chepngetich suspended for positive doping test
MONACO (AP) — Women's marathon world record-holder Ruth Chepngetich was provisionally suspended for a positive doping test on Thursday. Track and field's Athletics Integrity Unit said Chepngetich tested positive for a banned diuretic and masking agent in March and 'opted for a voluntary provisional suspension while the AIU's investigation was ongoing." The Kenyan runner set the world record by almost two minutes at the Chicago Marathon last October in 2 hours, 9 minutes, 56 seconds. It was her third win in Chicago. She also won the marathon at the 2019 world championships in Qatar, where the women's race started at midnight to avoid extreme daytime heat. The AIU gave no timetable for a disciplinary case for the 30-year-old runner. Chepngetich was interviewed in person in Kenya in April and 'complied with requests regarding our investigation,' AIU official Brett Clothier said in a statement. The substance Chepngetich tested positive for, hydrochlorothiazide or HCTZ, can be used to disguise the use of performance-enhancing drugs. ___ AP sports: The Associated Press
CBC
13 hours ago
- Sport
- CBC
Penny Oleksiak accused of anti-doping violation, faces multi-year ban
Swimmer Penny Oleksiak, Canada's most-decorated Olympian, has been accused of an apparent anti-doping rule violation for failing to report her whereabouts for drug testing three times in a year. If proven, the violation comes with a multi-year ban from competition.
CTV News
13 hours ago
- Sport
- CTV News
Olympian Penny Oleksiak notified of violating anti-doping rules
Watch Sports journalist Laura Robinson says Oleksiak is a top tier athlete and explains why it's unusual for her to miss three whereabout tests.
New York Times
a day ago
- Sport
- New York Times
Tara Moore, British tennis player given four-year doping ban, says system is ‘broken'
Tara Moore, the British tennis player given a four-year ban for a doping violation, says 'the anti-doping system is broken.' Moore's ban was confirmed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) last Tuesday. After returning a positive test for the anabolic steroids boldenone and nandrolone following a tournament in April 2022, an independent panel ruled that Moore bore no fault or negligence in December 2023, only for the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) to appeal that decision to CAS. Advertisement CAS ruled in the ITIA's favor, at the same time dismissing a counter-appeal from Moore, who was previously Britain's No. 1-ranked doubles player. The 32-year-old's four-year ban is minus the time she served while provisionally suspended, which began following her adverse test result from the tournament in Colombia. She will be able to return to tennis at the start of the 2028 season. 'The last three-and-a-half years have broken me into so many pieces,' Moore said in a statement on social media Sunday. 'As my family and friends have scrambled to pick up the broken shards of me, they've glued me back together in the form of a different person. 'I don't need a panel to tell me I'm innocent. I know the integrity I bring and I know I am innocent. I believe everyone over the past couple of years can see how subjective this process is. 'I have been the underdog. I have had my life as I knew it ripped away from me because the organisations and people in power failed to do what was right. They may have taken my fight away on the court, yet my fight is not over, not for me or others like me. 'The anti-doping system is broken. I am proof of this. We need to fix it. Not for me as it's too late, but for future players who find themselves in this unfortunate situation. I have so much more to say when the time is right.' Moore had argued that the presence of boldenone and nandrolone in her sample had been caused by the consumption of beef and/or pork while in Colombia. 'After reviewing the scientific and legal evidence, the majority of the CAS Panel considered that the player did not succeed in proving that the concentration of nandrolone in her sample was consistent with the ingestion of contaminated meat,' the court said in Tuesday's media release. 'The Panel concluded that Ms. Moore failed to establish that the ADRV (anti-doping rule violation) was not intentional. The appeal by the ITIA is therefore upheld, and the decision rendered by the independent tribunal is set aside. The cross-appeal filed by Ms. Moore was declared inadmissible.' Advertisement Doping has been a highly contentious issue for the sport in recent months following the positive tests and subsequent bans served by men's world No. 1 Jannik Sinner and four-time French Open women's champion Iga Świątek. Both players went on to win their respective singles titles at Wimbledon last weekend.
Japan Times
2 days ago
- Sport
- Japan Times
Thymen Arensman gives Ineos something to cheer about at Tour as doping cloud hangs
Thymen Arensman gave Ineos-Grenadiers something to cheer about, despite a doping cloud hanging over the team, as he won the 14th stage of the Tour de France following a superb solo ride in the 182.6-km mountain trek between Pau and Superbagneres on Saturday. Slovenian Tadej Pogacar retained the overall leader's yellow jersey as he took second place by beating chief rival Jonas Vingegaard in a two-man sprint finish, one minute 12 seconds behind Arensman, the first rider from the British outfit to win on the Tour in two years. Ineos-Grenadiers have been facing questions about one of their team carers, who is at the center of allegations involving alleged message exchanges in 2012 with a doctor connected to the notorious Operation Aderlass doping scandal, which rocked the sporting world in 2019. Bradley Wiggins won the Tour in 2012 with the team, which was then known as Team Sky, before Chris Froome went on to win another four for the squad. The team carer was seen at the beginning of the Tour in Lille but has not been sighted in recent days. "I have no idea about this, you have to ask the management about this. I'm just focused on my job, doing my own thing," Arensman told reporters. Although no formal charges have been brought, the development has cast a shadow over the team's Tour campaign. "Ineos Grenadiers Cycling Team is aware of recent media allegations relating to the 2012 season and a member of its staff. These allegations have not to date been presented to the team by any appropriate authority," the team said in a statement. The team added that it had formally requested information from the International Testing Agency and reaffirmed its zero-tolerance policy regarding doping violations. The agency said it would not further comment on the matter. Operation Aderlass, which began with a raid during the 2019 Nordic World Ski Championships in Austria, implicated athletes and medical personnel across several sports, including cycling. The doctor at the center of the case, Mark Schmidt, was later convicted and sentenced to prison time for administering illegal blood transfusions. On the Tour, defending champion Pogacar extended his lead over Vingegaard in the general classification by six seconds to 4:13 at the end of a stage which saw Belgian Remco Evenepoel, who had started the day in third place overall, abandon the race. The day belonged to Arensman, however, as the Dutchman went solo from the day's breakaway in the penultimate climb to the Col de Peyresourde (7.1 kilometers at a 7.8% gradient) before his team car hit and knocked down a spectator amid the usual roadside chaos on the Tour. Arensman never looked back and held firm on his way up to Superbagneres (12.4 km at 7.3%) as Vingegaard attacked several times in an attempt to drop Pogacar. But the world champion did not flinch and easily beat his rival in the final meters to further cement his dominance. "I can't really believe it," Arensman said. "I got sick after the Giro, but I had a good preparation going into my first Tour. I had to be patient and wait for the mountains to try my luck. This is unbelievable, the way I did it today." "I had amazing legs and I'm in the shape of my life. I thought with Tadej and Jonas in the favorites group three minutes behind, I was not sure I had enough, but I held them off." The peloton, controlled by Pogacar's UAE Team Emirates-XRG, reduced the gap with the breakaway from four to just over two minutes, giving the sense that the Slovenian would go for the win. But Arensman had other ideas and he went on his own in the Col de Peyresourde and never looked back.
