Doping in spotlight after double drugs shame on eve of World Athletics Championships
Cas bans US sprinter Erriyon Knighton for four years
Ethiopia’s Diribe Welteji ineligible pending case appeal
Doping in track and field has been thrust back into the spotlight on the eve of the World Athletics Championships after the US sprint star Erriyon Knighton was banned for four years and the Ethiopian Diribe Welteji was declared ineligible to run in Tokyo due to an ongoing case. Both athletes had previously won world championship medals.
The 21-year-old Knighton, who won a world championship bronze over 200m in 2022 and silver in 2023, had blamed his failed drugs test last year on contaminated oxtail imported from abroad.