Kenyan marathon runner Lawrence Cherono has been handed a seven-year ban for breaching doping rules, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced Wednesday. The 35-year-old runner, who won the Boston and Chicago marathons in 2019, provided an out-of-competition urine sample in May 2022 which revealed the presence of the prohibited substance trimetazidine. “The AIU has banned Lawrence Cherono (Kenya) for 7 …

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has set 19 January 2024, as the date for hearing the appeal filed by World Athletics via the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), challenging the first instance decision of the disciplinary tribunal in World Athletics Vs Nigeria and World Record holder in the 100m hurdles, Tobi Amusan. Earlier, …

Nigerian sprinter, Grace Nwokocha, has been banned for doping for three years, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced on Friday. Nwokocha, who won gold in the 4x100m relay at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, tested positive for Ostarine and Ligandrol, two anabolic agents in a sample collected on 3 August 2022. The AIU said that Nwokocha has admitted to the doping …

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) says it has begun the process of challenging the decision to clear Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan of doping violations after the body charged her with three whereabouts failures in July before she was cleared by a panel in August. Amusan, who just won her third consecutive women’s 100m hurdles Diamond League title in Eugene, Oregon on …

As the athletic world curiously await the ruling of the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) on women’s 100m hurdles world record holder, Tobi Amusan, the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) said it is expecting the verdict in the next six days ahead of the 2023 World Championships, which will hold from 19th to 27th August in Budapest, Hungary. With eight days …