Athletics Integrity Unit’s charge against Bahrain Athletics Association raises serious questions – including about the merit of Salwa Eid Naser’s Olympic 400m silver medal
Athletics Integrity Unit’s charge against Bahrain Athletics Association raises serious questions – including about the merit of Salwa Eid Naser’s silver medal
Ramzi runs away with it, hardly even breathing as he crosses the line, and with that the words of James Nolan are ringing in my ears. “He’s doped up to his eyeballs.” Bahrain's Rashid Ramzi celebrates winning the Men's 1500m final in Beijing. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho In January of 2008, Cera was approved for the treatment of anaemia and chronic kidney disease, under the trade name Mircera. Professional cycling, given its historic addiction to such substances, quickly indulged, and early in the 2008 Tour, traces of Mircera were found in the urine of Italy’s Riccardo Ricco.
As was El Hassan El-Abbassi and Sadik Mikhou, both also Moroccan-born, before later declaring their allegiance to Bahrain, the Gulf island with a population of around 1.5 million people, and with zero athletics tradition. Naser was born in Nigeria and named Ebelechukwu Agbapuonwu, and declared for Bahrain in 2014, five years before she won the World Championship 400m title in Doha in 48.14 seconds, the third fastest time in history behind East Germany’s Marita Koch and Jarmila Kratochvilova from the former Czechoslovakia .
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