Three members of the Refugee Athlete Team – a World Athletics program that offers opportunities to athletes who have fled war or violent conflict in their home countries – have been suspended or sanctioned for doping in recent months, according to reports. Athletics Illustrated.
The last case is the South Sudanese woman Anjelina Nadai Lohalithwho on Tuesday received a temporary suspension from the Athletics Integrity Unit for using a banned substance (Trimetazidine).
The 29-year-old runner is one of the most experienced in the team, having competed in Rio 2016 Olympic Games and in Tokyo 2020always at a distance of 1500m.
Lohalith runs away from him South Sudan native when he was nine years old and started running in the Kakuma refugee camp, in northern Kenya, where his talent for athletics was discovered.
His countryman has a similar story Dominic Lokolong Atiolwho was temporarily suspended last month for using the same substance.
Atiol, 24 years old, is also a specialist in the 1500m, a distance for which he has a personal best of 3:50.69.
The third member of the Refugee Athlete Team to be suspended for doping is Fouad Idbafdilfrom Morocco, who last December received a three-year sentence for using EPO.
The 37-year-old Moroccan runner is a specialist in 3,000m obstacles and participated in the Doha World Athletics Championships (2019), Gdynia World Half Marathon (2020) and European Cross Country Championships in Dublin (2021) and Piemonte (2022).
Source: La Verdad
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