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Sumgong: From Olympic heroine to doping poster girl

2016 Virgin Money London Marathon Winners Photocall - The Tower Hotel, St Katharine's Way, London - 25/4/16 Winner of the elite women's race, Kenya's Jemima Sumgong poses with the trophy Action Images via Reuters

How did it all go downhill for Kenya’s first woman to win an Olympic gold in women marathon?

No one ever saw a record eight-year ban and taking up the mantle of the new poster girl of the doping scourge in Kenya coming the way of the charming, gregarious and infectious but now disgraced Olympic champion Jemimah Jelagat Sumgong.

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