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Kenya's Asbel Kiprop celebrates after winning the men's 1500m race during the Diamond League Athletics meeting Weltklasse on September 3, 2015, in Zurich. [AFP PHOTO / MICHAEL BUHOLZER]
Three-time world champion Asbel Kiprop will challenge Athletics Kenya’s (AK) decision that prohibits doping offenders from representing Kenya at the international event.
Kiprop is currently serving a four-year ban slapped on him by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) in April 2019. The lanky 1500m runner, who won an Olympic gold in Beijing in 2008, tested positive for performance enhancing drugs- Erythropoietin, in 2017.
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