Paris — Kenya’s Titus Ekiru, sixth fastest antheral Successful past successful the marathon, is facing a imaginable 10-year prohibition aft receiving a provisional suspension for doping, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said connected Monday.

Ekiru has 2 marathon wins to his sanction including triumph successful Milan successful May 2021 successful the exceptionally accelerated clip of 2hr 2min 57sec.

The 31-year-old tested affirmative for triamcinolone acetonide, a glucocorticoid, aft winning successful Milan, “but was not instantly charged aft the archetypal probe appeared to validate his mentation that the effect was owed to morganatic aesculapian treatment”.

The jock tested affirmative for pethidine aft winning successful Abu Dhabi successful November, 2021, and again claimed the result resulted from morganatic aesculapian treatment. He has not raced since then.

The AIU has provisionally suspended Titus Ekiru (Kenya) for the beingness of Prohibited Substances (Triamcinolone Acetonide and metabolite; Pethidine and metabolite) and for Tampering.

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“Following archetypal investigations into that substance – and fixed the emergence of a signifier of triamcinolone acetonide usage among Kenyan athletes – the AIU re-opened the probe into Ekiru’s archetypal case,” the AIU said.

Ekiru was provisionally suspended past month, “pending the result of some wide-ranging investigations which included important collaboration with the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK) and different Kenyan authorities”.

That led to the AIU rejecting Ekiru’s explanations, charging him with 2 doping charges and past asserting that the Kenyan has “cases to reply for tampering with the results-management processes by submitting falsified aesculapian explanations and documentation to the AIU for some affirmative tests”.

This means the elite marathoner is facing a imaginable 10-year ban, the AIU said.

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