So he also didn’t pay any mind to the fact that the official testing him asked for money after he gave them his urine sample. “I thought he wanted small money, maybe for tea,” the athlete told BBC Sport this week. Then the athlete’s urine sample came back positive for EPO, a blood-boosting agent that violates international doping rules. At the time, about 40 Kenyan athletes had failed drug tests since 2012. Then, at the games themselves, one Kenyan sprint coach posed as an athlete and provided a urine sample on that runner's behalf.

Source: Washington Post June 01, 2018 16:21 UTC