Why track medalist will not see 2020 Olympic games in Tokyo

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Kenya’s track and field reputation has been seriously damaged by the upsurge in doping cases in recent years, which has been accompanied by multiple incidents of corruption in the anti-doping system.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has also put in place a series of stringent measures to speed up the fight against doping.

Action has been seen with Kenyan world 800 metres bronze medalist Kipyegon Bett who has been handed a four-year ban for doping, the IAAF Athletics Integrity Unit has said.

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Bett, 20, refused to allow a urine sample to be taken in February and then in July, when a sample was taken, he tested positive for the prohibited substance Erythropoeitin (EPO), an endurance-boosting hormone, the integrity unit said.

Unless he appeals, Bett will be suspended until August 2022.which rules him out of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo and the next two editions of the World Championships.

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The AIU handles integrity and doping issues for the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).

Bett is the latest Kenyan to fail a drugs test. A World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) report said between 2004 and Aug. 1, 2018, as many as 138 athletes from the east African nation tested positive for banned substances, 113 in competition.

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Long distance runners, Hilary Kipgkosgei Yego and Samuel Kalalei, who won the Athens marathon in November 2017, were also part of the list of athletes issued with provisional suspension on AIU’s official website.

Kenya has had more than 50 failed tests in the past six years and has now been placed in category A, which includes member federations majorly at risk of doping by the AIU.

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