BREAKING: Marathoner Diana Kipyokei has been stripped of her 2021 Boston Marathon title for doping and tampering, athletics investigators and the BAA say.
The Boston Marathon made a triumphant return from a pandemic-enforced break — in the fall, for the first time — and it brought back some familiar and powerful emotions.
"The Boston Athletic Association supports strict anti-doping measures to ensure fair competition and clean sport," the marathon organizer said Tuesday.an anti-inflammatory that's on the World Anti-Doping Agency's list of banned substances, unless the athlete has a doctor's permission, according to the Monaco-based Athletics Integrity Unit.
Triamcinolone acetonide is a kind of glucocorticoid. While those substances are used therapeutically, some applications of them are banned in competitions over"clear evidence of systemic effects which could potentially enhance performance and be harmful to health," according to the Athletics Integrity Unit. Athletes found to have glucocorticoids in their system need to have gotten an exemption ahead of time.
The AIU also announced that a second Kenyan marathoner, Purity Rionoripo, has received a five-year ban for similar offenses. Rionoripo won the 2017 Paris Marathon.
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