Nairobi — The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has slapped Kenyan athlete Kennedy Kiprop Cheboror with a two-year ban after three whereabout failures.
The 2019 Gyeongju Marathon champion was first cited for a whereabout failure on November 6 final 12 months after he was unavailable at his Kapsabet athletics coaching camp for an anti-doping check.
“The DCO (doping management officer) and the DCA (doping management agent) met a person who knowledgeable them that the Athlete was in his low season at his house (and consequently not on the camp tackle the place he resided throughout the coaching season). The person referred to as the athlete and knowledgeable the DCO and the DCA that the athlete had stated that he was in Eldoret and wouldn’t have the ability to make it to the camp tackle inside the 60-minute time slot,” the report reads.
On the second event, it was revealed that the athlete had modified his administration and was not coaching on the camp.
The athlete defended himself saying that he had assumed his whereabouts info had been up to date to his present location.
“The Athlete knowledgeable them that he was of the understanding that his Whereabouts
info had been up to date to the place he was situated at the moment (in Eldoret),” the report reveals.
It provides: “On 18 December 2023, a proof was submitted to the AIU on the Athlete’s behalf by his consultant on the time. In abstract, the Athlete’s consultant defined that the athlete had not knowledgeable these individuals chargeable for submitting updates to his Whereabouts info that he had moved out of the camp and that there had been no updates to the athlete’s Whereabouts info accordingly.”
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Along with his destiny hanging within the stability, Cheboror did not avail himself for his third anti-doping check on December 27.
His clarification, afterward, was that he had gone house for Christmas and was unable to return to his whereabouts location in time.
“The DCO and the DCA searched the world for the total 60 minutes of the athlete’s
specified timeslot by following the extra directions submitted within the athlete’s
Whereabouts Submitting. Nonetheless, the DCO and the DCA had been unable to seek out the right gate and home and subsequently weren’t in a position to find the athlete for testing throughout the specified 60-minute time slot,” the report says.
It provides: “On 30 January 2024, a proof was submitted to the AIU by the athlete’s then consultant. In abstract, the athlete’s consultant knowledgeable the AIU that the athlete had knowledgeable them that he had gone house for Christmas and had forgotten to tell the consultant about altering his Whereabouts info.”
Cheboror’s final aggressive race was in 2022 on the Barcelona Marathon the place he completed sixth after clocking 2:07:22
He additionally competed on the nationwide cross nation championships in the identical 12 months and completed second within the senior males’s 10km race.