The World Athletics continued to tighten the noose on dopers when it handed Kenya's distance runner Titus Ekiru a 10-year ban for various doping offences. Ekiru, who had a career best of two hours, two minutes, 57 seconds had been provisionally suspended by AIU in July this year. He failed the test at the Generali Milano Marathon on May 16, 2021 after being found with triamcinolone acetonide in his system and the Abu Dhabi Marathon on November 16, 2021 where he abused pethidine and its marker norpethidine. Ekiru went on to win the Abu Dhabi Marathon in 2:06:13 on November 26, 2021 and has not competed since then. “Government officials are now working alongside ADAK and the AIU to uncover doping in Kenyan athletics and expose the networks that may be involved.

Source: Daily Nation October 16, 2023 19:34 UTC