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Three-time world 1,500m champion Asbel Kiprop upbeat as four-year ban ends

Former 1500m Champion Asbel Kiprop trains near Kapsoya area in Eldoret Uasin Gishu County yesterday, after staying out for four years for the alleged doping ban by IAAF. January 29.2022. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]

Three-time world 1,500m champion Asbel Kiprop will be back to action from Wednesday when his four-year doping ban ends.

Asbel, who is the 2008 Olympic 1,500m champion, said it was a sigh of relief to get back to competition. The ban was imposed in 2018.

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