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Ethiopian Tokyo Marathon Winner Endeshaw Negesse Fails Doping Test (Update)

March 3, 2016March 4, 2016TesfaNews22 Comments

By Nick Butler, Tokyo Marathon winner Endeshaw Negesse has become the first Ethiopian named in connection with a failed drugs test following reports that as many as nine athletes from the distance running powerhouse are under investigation. Endeshaw Negesse tested positive for Meldonium, the same recently banned substance which it emerged that Sweden’s Ethiopian-born former […]

Ethiopian Athletes Under Scrutiny for Doping

February 29, 2016TesfaNews23 Comments

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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