Kenyan Diana Chemtai Kipyokei, winner of the 2021 Boston Marathon, and her compatriot Betty Wilson Lempus have been provisionally suspended for anti-doping rule violations, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced this Friday, while the number of cases continues to rise. cases from Kenya.
The two athletes were accused of tampering with evidence and obstruction of procedure, mainly by using false documents, after testing positive in 2021 for triamcinolone, a glucocorticoid that was still allowed in some forms in 2021, before being completely banned in competition. since January.
Diana Chemtai Kipyokei (28 years old) won the Boston Marathon in October 2021, one of the six “important” in the world, then she tested positive for triamcinolone.
Betty Wilson Lempus (31 years old) won the Paris Half Marathon in September 2021.
The two suspensions come three days after his compatriot Mark Kangogo, winner of Sierre-Zinal in August, also tested positive for triamcinolone.
Kipyokei and Lempus are the 22nd and 23rd athletes from Kenya to be suspended in 2022 – their country has been classified as category A on the World Athletics and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) lists since 2016.
Source: La Verdad
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