Doping Conviction for Petro Mamu, 2017 World Long Distance Mountain Running Champion BY ARIELLA GINTZLER | TRAIL RUNNER On September 27, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) announced that 2017 World Long Distance Mountain Running Champion Petro Mamu used banned performance-enhancing drugs (PED) in competition.
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By AFP, World athletics’ governing body, the IAAF, on Friday named five countries including east African track giants Ethiopia and Kenya as being in “critical care” over their anti-doping programmes. “The reform process has led to more information being shared and recommendations owed at Council level around the fight to protect clean athletes,” IAAF president […]
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By Elias Meseret | for Associated Press, Nine Ethiopian runners, five of them “top athletes,” are under investigation for doping, the general secretary of the country’s anti-doping agency said Monday, raising fears of another damaging scandal for track and field in the run-up to the Rio Olympics. Solomon Meaza told The Associated Press that the […]
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By Reuters, Kenya, facing scrutiny from world anti-doping officials and criticism that it is not doing enough to tackle the problem, has banned seven more athletes for doping offences, raising the total number of Kenyan drug cases in the last three years to 40. In a statement late on Friday, Athletics Kenya said it had […]
Continue ReadingBy TesfaNews, Eritrean Natnael Berhane (Europcar) finally inherited the historic Presidential Tour of Turkey title after Turkish Cycling Federation confirms the doping offence and formally stripped off the victory title from the controversial winner Mustafa Sayar. The surprise victory by a relatively unknown Mustafa Sayar and his dramatic performance on stage six with eight seconds […]
Continue ReadingBy Lovelyn Okafor, Born January 5 1991, young Natnael Berhane has become a name to be reckoned with in professional cycling; a sport not very common in our part of the world. Natnael made history for Eritrea and African cycling sport as the first cyclist from sub-Saharan Africa to win a major Hors over the […]
Continue ReadingEritrean Cyclist Natnael Berhane (Europcar) who stood second in the 2013 Tour of Turkey might possibily be the automatic winner if Turkish winner Mustafa Sayar confirmed positive for doping test By velonews.com, Turkish rider Mustafa Sayar has been provisionally suspended after returning a positive doping test at the Tour of Algeria in March. Sayar (Torku […]
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