While we are celebrating our Kenyan athletes who are raising our flags very high epecially in the recent Mumbai marathon and currently Ruth Chepngetich in the Dubai standared chartered marathon who has set a new record from a kenyan’s set in 2006, we are also getting some disturbing news on some of our owntrack legends.
Henry Rono used to be athlete star has been trending after his plight for help to secure a ticket back to homeland Kenya due to his miserable situation in New Mexico, US, where the 66 year old fallen legend is a security guard at an Airport, came to be known by the public.
As efforts to bring the lost heroe back ensue, Kenyans have been bombarded with another disappoint from a Kenyan athlete’s released fate in running.
The IAAF on Friday after a tribunal, chaired by Michael Beloff QC, decided marathon champion Jemima Sumgong had committed a second anti-doping offence of “tampering with a doping control.
The unprecedented sanction was made after the IAAF’s independent disciplinary tribunal ruled there was “compelling evidence” Sumgong had also fabricated her medical records and lied about her whereabouts after a positive test for EPO in 2017, for which she later received a four-year ban.
The 2016 Olympic marathon champion has had her doping ban increased to eight years after her claims that she was injected with EPO by an “impostor” at a Kenyan hospital during a doctor’s strike were dismissed.
The ruling means Sumgong, who was the first Kenyan woman to win Olympic marathon gold, is banned until 3 April 2025.