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Athletics Kenya President Isaiah Kiplagat and two other officials have been handed a 180-day suspension over integrity issues.
Three leading Kenyan athletics officials have been suspended by the ethics commission of athletics' governing body, the IAAF, over the "potential subversion of the anti-doping control process" in the African country.
Athletics Kenya president Isaiah Kiplagat, vice president David Okeyo and 2015 world championships team leader Joseph Kinyua have been suspended for 180 days "in the interests of the integrity of the sport," the IAAF said in a statement on Monday.
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