A second runner on the Olympic refugee team has been implicated in doping while preparing for the Paris Games. Track and field’s Athletics Integrity Unit says Dominic Lokolong Atiol has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for trimetazidine.
FILE - The Olympic rings are set up at Trocadero plaza that overlooks the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Sept. 14, 2017. Track and field athletes from Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Portugal will be tested more often ahead of this year’s Paris Olympics because of sub-standard anti-doping programs at home, the sport’s investigators said Monday March 11, 2024. MONACO — A second runner on the Olympic refugee team has been implicated in doping while preparing for the Paris Games.
The AIU said it sent Lokolong Atiol — a refugee from South Sudan who lives and trains in Kenya — a notice of the allegation he faces in an ongoing disciplinary case The 24-year-old runner in the 800 and 1,500 meters is one of more than 60 refugee athletes receiving financial help from the International Olympic Committee ahead of the Paris Games that open July 26.states he “became a refugee at 11 when he became an orphan.” He moved from South Sudan to the Kakuma refugee camp and now trains at camp named for marathon great Tegla Loroupe.
Loroupe, a three-time Olympian and winner of the New York Marathon in 1994 and ’95, led the Olympic refugee team when it debuted at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games with 10 athletes. The team had 29 athletes at the Tokyo Olympics held in 2021.
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