Kenyan Marathoner Titus Ekiru has been slapped with a 10-year ban by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) over forgery of hospital documents, after two separate urine samples tested positive for banned substances.
Ekiru had earlier on been provisionally suspended by the AIU as it waited for him to respond to the charges, and it is during this period, that the 2019 Africa Games Half Marathon champion further cooked himself dry.
According to the AIU, documents from the hospital showed discrepancies in Ekiru's explanations saying that the injections he received stemmed from prescribed medications for injury treatment.AIU and the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya later found out that Ekiru had colluded with a senior doctor who had administered the injections of triamcinolone acetonide during undocumented hospital visits.
The senior doctor claimed Ekiru's visits were unrecorded by the hospital as"the athlete had attended early in the morning, before the registration offices had opened".There was a problem processing your submission. Please try again later. Ekiru tested positive twice for the Presence of Prohibited Substances, or their metabolites or markers, in his in-competition urine samples at marathons which he won in 2021: the Generali Milano Marathon on 16 May 2021 and the Abu Dhabi Marathon on 26 November 2021 .Ekiru's victory in the Generali Milano Marathon would have made him the sixth-fastest marathoner of all time.
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