Doping athletes to be given four-year ban in future

Athletics’ world governing body, the IAAF, will hand four-year bans to those caught doping from 2015.

Thu, 08 Aug, 2013 - 16:40

Athletics’ world governing body, the IAAF, will hand four-year bans to those caught doping from 2015.

The sport has been thrown into turmoil recently by news that Tyson Gay, Asafa Powell and Veronica Campbell-Brown had failed tests, along with a number of Russian and Turkish athletes.

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