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Asbel Kiprop: I want a DNA test to prove there are no drugs in my system

(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 3, 2015 Kenya's Asbel Kiprop celebrates after winning the men's 1500m race during the Diamond League Athletics meeting Weltklasse in Zurich. A Asbel Kiprop tested positive for the endurance-boosting drug EPO, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) confirmed on May 4, 2018 refuting allegations by the Kenyan track star that his sample might have been contaminated. / AFP PHOTO

Since May 5 when his world came tumbling down, Asbel Kiprop Kebenei, the men 1500m Beijing 2008 Olympic champion, has been a man on the warpath as he battles to protest his innocence after being accused of using banned blood-booster, rEPO.

The independent Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) of world governing body, the IAAF, confirmed news broken by British right-wing publication, Daily Mail, that two urine samples collected from his home on November 27, 2017 had returned adverse findings confirming the presence of recombinant Erythropoietin (rEPO) in his system.

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