On Friday, the athletics world Championships in 2019 will start in the Qatari capital, Doha. Here, Top athletes from Kenya and Tajikistan are missing, because they have violated Anti-Doping rules.
Kenya, a 5,000-Meter runner Michael Kibet and Daniel Simiyu at the athletics world Championships in Qatar Doha (27.09. to 06.10.2019) do not go to the Start. Both have in the run-up to the world Cup, not a sufficient number of Doping Tests before competitions. Hammer throw Olympic champion Dilschod Nararow from Tajikistan was blocked, in addition, provisionally, after an eight-year-old doping test showed a positive result. In addition, other Kenyans are locked for the season highlight in the Gulf state of Qatar.
Michael Kibet
The Kenyan running star began his career at the age of 20 years, the 1,500-Meter distance. Fast the longer distances, was followed by Kibet won the Meetings in Hungary and Italy race over 3,000 meters and 5,000 meters. For the world Cup in 2019, Kibet was one of the great Gold-hope of the runner nation, Kenya, has now been locked, but the Athletics Integrity Union (AIU) for the world Cup in Doha, because he Tests below had the minimum number of previously delivered Doping.
The AIU regulations require three Doping Tests outside and within the race, in order for an Athlete is allowed to compete. This has not proven Kibet and missed the world Cup.
Daniel Simiyu
As the Kenya, the youngster of the team last Monday in the direction of Qatar, was missing in addition to Kibet with Simiyu another Top Star. And for the same reason. “Only Nicholas Kimeli and Jacob Krop will represent us in Doha,” said Paul Mutwii, the Vice President of the Kenyan athletes Association before departure of the flight in the Qatari capital: “Kibet and Simiyu has not been approved for the world Cup, because they have violated the Anti-Doping rules. We are very consistently and may not afford to make any missteps.”
Nevertheless, a Kenyans in Doha, the favorite to take over the 5,000 meters with Kimeli, who ran last June, 12 minutes and 57 seconds world best time of the year,. “Nicholas Kimeli is one of the best of our country, even if he was at the national Championships, only the third,” said Barnaba Korir from Kenya athletes Federation.
Jack line Wambui and Linda Kageha
Jack line Wambui has been locked out due to elevated Testosterone levels
The Lock for Kibet and Simiyu are the latest in a series for Kenya in the run-up to the world Cup. Previously Jack line Wambui and Linda Kageha had been removed from the roster of Kenya. In the case of both increased testosterone values were determined. With Wambui, the Kenyan champion is missing, therefore, in the 800 meters, Kageha was provided for the Mixed Team Triathlon.
The 26-year-old Elijah Manangoi another Top Athlete does not belong to the cadre of Kenyans at the season climax. The defending world champion over 1500 meters is missing in Doha, however, is not due to a Doping infringement, but because of an injury. Overall, in the past five years, more than 60 Kenyan athletes banned because of Doping violations, or otherwise sanctioned – among them the Olympic champion over 1,500 metres in 2008 Asbel Kiprop, the Marathon at the Olympic games of 2016, Jemimah Sumgong, and the former Boston and Chicago Marathon winner Rita Jeptoo.
Dilschod Nazarov
Dilschod Nazarov at the IAAF Continental Cup in 2018 to Ostrava
But for the world Cup Blocked just Kenya are niche athletes. Hammer thrower Dilschod Nazarov from Tajikistan was also locked – first of all, but for the time being. In a doping sample of the reigning Olympic champion banned steroids were detected. According to the AIU, the sample of the first Olympic winner comes from the Central Asian country after the collapse of the Soviet Union from the world Championships in athletics 2011 in Daegu, South Korea. In the competition, Nazarov became only the tenth, but won world championship silver in 2015 in Beijing and a year later, Olympic Gold in Rio de Janeiro.
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