Nairobi — The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has banned Kenya’s Nicholas Kosimbei for 3 years after testing optimistic for the prohibited substance trimetazidine.
In a press release, the company mentioned the 2014 World Below 20 10,000m bronze medalist examined optimistic for the substance in February final yr within the aftermath of Atlanta Half Marathon by which he completed second.
“In abstract, the Athlete’s rationalization is that he was prescribed Trimetazidine 35mg in a non-public clinic on 16 December 2022 to deal with chest ache and that he took the treatment twice a day for 3 days from that date,” the company revealed.
Trimetazidine is a banned substance as a result of its potential to reinforce endurance throughout bodily exercise.
The company additional revealed that the athlete has accepted the ban and waived his proper to attraction the identical.
Axe of the legislation
Additionally slain by AIU’s newest onslaught on offenders is Ibrahim Mukunga Wachira who has been banished to the athletics wilderness for six years after testing optimistic for the banned substances norandrosterone and tamofixen.
The 32-year-old examined optimistic off of a urine pattern supplied in September 2022 after an in-competition in Tallin, Estonia.
Based on AIU’s account, Wachira confirmed up at a hospital in Karatina with a dose of norandrosterone, which he then directed he be injected with for aid from a knee ache.
“On March 1, 2024, AIU acquired a second handwritten response from the Alpha Medical Clinic dated 28 February 2024 which confirmed, inter alia, that the athlete had visited Alpha Medical Clinic for help in administering already prescribed injections,” the company revealed.
Regardless of the revelations, Wachira insisted that the treatment had been prescribed to him on the clinic.
The company reveals the athlete was additional unable to elucidate the tamoxifen metabolites in his blood samples.
Additionally set for a spell on the sidelines is the 2023 Bali Marathon champion Sophy Jepchirchir who has been slapped with a three-year ban for using testosterone.
