The finance from World Marathon Majors means that the top 150 runners will face tougher testing after races as well as when they are out of competition. STOCK IMAGE
PARIS: The International Association of Athletics Federations is to launch a doping crackdown on elite marathon runners after scandals involving top Kenyan and Russian stars.
Organisers of the top races in London, New York, Boston, Chicago, Tokyo and Berlin have agreed to finance extra testing of top runners by the governing body.
The finance from World Marathon Majors means that the top 150 runners will face tougher testing after races as well as when they are out of competition.
Failed tests by Russia’s Liliya Shobukhova, who was the second fastest woman in history, and Kenya’s Rita Jeptoo, three-time winner of the Boston marathon, sullied the name of one of the original Olympic disciplines.
Jeptoo was one of 35 Kenyan athletes suspended over the past two years for taking banned drugs.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 18th, 2015.
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