Jemima Sumgong; the Olympic marathon runner who was previously banned for 4 years, her sentence for the ban has been doubled which makes her ruled out until 2027. The ban was doubled in time after the IAAF disciplinary tribunal gave the ruling that she has fabricated and lied about the medical records.
Jemima Sumgong, who has won the Rio 2016 gold medal and has also won the Las Vegas, London and Rotterdam marathons, was handed out her initial ruling back in 2017 after her blood test came out positive for blood-boosting drug named EPO.
Sumgong who denied anything about wrongdoing also said that an imposter of a doctor might have given her this drug during the doctor’s strike at a hospital in Nairobi.
According to the 34 years old, Sumgong she was visiting the hospital at that time for the treatment of her ruptured ‘ectopic pregnancy’.
However, after the joint investigation conducted by Anti-Doping Kenya and the Athletics Integrity Unit, no record of her visit was found at that particular hospital and the documents she provided to prove her innocence were deemed as fake.
The medical experts of the investigation team also stated that EPO was the unlikely treatment for her fabricated health issue and for that particular medical condition; she would have been hospitalized for three to four days.
With the ruling set, Sumgong can still only keep her pre-2017 results and her blood samples can be re-tested by the ‘The International Olympic Committee’ until 2026.
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