Kenyan middle-distance runner Alfred Kipketer banned for two years : The standard Sports
ATHLETICS 2016 Rio Olympics - Athletics - Semifinal - Men's 800m Semifinals - Olympic Stadium - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 13/08/2016. Alfred Kipketer (KEN) of Kenya. [Reuters, Lucy Nicholson] 23-year-old Kenyan middle-distance runner Alfred Kipketer has been handed a two-year ban by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) over whereabouts failures. The 2014 World Under-20 800 meters champion becomes the latest in a long list of Kenyan athletes banned over the same from the start of last year, the first in 2021. Kipketer is reported to have had four whereabouts failures, from having missed the firs...