When interviewed in April by the AIU, Chepngetich, the first woman to run a marathon in under 2:10, could not provide an explanation for the positive test.<\/p>\n
While HCTZ has a minimum reporting level of 20 nanograms per millilitre (ng\/mL) in urine, Chepngetich’s sample showed an estimated concentration of 3,800 ng\/mL.<\/p>\n
Traces of HCTZ below the minimal reporting level were also identified in a sample collected from Chepngetich two weeks earlier, on 28 February.<\/p>\n
At a later interview on 11 July, Chepngetich was presented with the aforementioned suspicious evidence acquired from her phone. In the meantime, contamination had also been disproven by the AIU.<\/p>\n
Chepngetich changed her explanation on 31 July, claiming that she had taken her housemaid’s medication – marked as being HCTZ – after becoming ill two days before the positive test.<\/p>\n
The AIU had “serious reservations about the credibility of the new version of events” and, in the context of the sport’s anti-doping rules, such “recklessness” is considered “indirect intent, for which an increased four-year sanction applies”. <\/p>\n
An automatic one-year reduction was applied after Chepngetich admitted the anti-doping rule violations within the 20 days required.<\/p>\n
The three-year ban commenced on 19 April – when Chepngetich accepted a voluntary provisional suspension – with the athlete’s results, awards, titles, appearance and prize money since 14 March forfeited.<\/p>\n
AIU chair David Howman said the case underlined that “nobody is above the rules”.<\/p>\n
“While disappointing for those who put their trust in this athlete, this is how the system is supposed to work,” Howman said.<\/p>\n
“The road-running industry should be commended for collectively funding anti-doping efforts capable of uncovering doping violations committed by elite athletes in their events.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When interviewed in April by the AIU, Chepngetich, the first woman to run a marathon in under 2:10,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-140846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115424290560748735","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}