{"id":8711,"date":"2020-05-30T20:10:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T20:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=8711"},"modified":"2020-05-30T20:10:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T20:10:23","slug":"shock-as-aiu-bans-kenyan-athlete-mutai-for-four-years-over-doping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/shock-as-aiu-bans-kenyan-athlete-mutai-for-four-years-over-doping","title":{"rendered":"Shock as AIU bans Kenyan athlete Mutai for four years over doping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) handed Kenya\u2019s long-distance runner Mikel Kiprotich Mutai a four-year ban on Friday for a doping offence.<\/p>\n<p>Road runner Japhet Kipchirchir Kipkorir was also handed provisional suspension for a similar offence.<\/p>\n<p>Mutai\u2019s ban starts on March 20 for four years and his results dating back to December 15, 2019, will be nullified.<\/p>\n<p>Mutai and another Kenyan star Alex Korio Oliotiptip were handed separate provisional suspensions for violating World Athletics anti-doping rules on May 1, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Mutai\u2019s charge involved the presence of prohibited substances (Norandrosterone) while Oliotiptip was suspended due to whereabout failures.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The AIU has banned Stanislau Tsivonchyk (BLR), Mikel Kiprotich Mutai (KEN) &amp; Kiranjit Kaur (IND), all for violations of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WorldAthletics?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WorldAthletics<\/a> Anti-Doping Rules. <br \/>See the details <br \/>\u2b07\ufe0f \u2b07\ufe0f \u2b07\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cBkQOqSHT4\">https:\/\/t.co\/cBkQOqSHT4<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AIUNews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AIUNews<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MySportMyIntegrity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MySportMyIntegrity<\/a><br \/>1\/2 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mxPOVamcDV\">pic.twitter.com\/mxPOVamcDV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Athletics Integrity Unit (@aiu_athletics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aiu_athletics\/status\/1266339170491994113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Former world marathon record-holder Paul Tergat said in April criminalising doping will help end vice in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Tergat stated the country must move with speed and create a new law that will criminalise the offence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We all ran clean and we want our current crop of athletes to run clean. There&#8217;s no shortcut to clean sports except training hard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo many things have been happening right, left and centre regarding doping in Kenya,&#8221; said Tergat.<\/p>\n<p>Tergat, the National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOC-K) president, indicated athletes caught doping should serve jail time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kenya now needs to be tough on dopers by criminalising their offences. They will suffer double loss to revenue and time in jail if they are found doping,&#8221; said Tergat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the current rate, Kenya risks being banned from the Olympics or big city&#8217;s marathons. What we need to do is make the punishment for offenders more punitive.<\/p>\n<p>This will also bar offenders from putting on our national colours and make them ineligible to compete elsewhere,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Current Kenyan law stipulates a jail term of up to three years for support staff found guilty in connection with doping, but not for athletes.<\/p>\n<p>From 2004 to August 2018, 138 Kenyan athletes tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs, according to a WADA report published in September 2018.<\/p>\n<p>With their high number of dopers, Kenya was placed under category A on the list of countries being watched together with Nigeria, Ethiopia, Bahrain, Morocco, Ukraine and Belarus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Kenya: The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) handed Kenya\u2019s long-distance runner Mikel Kiprotich Mutai a four-year ban on Friday for a doping offence. 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