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Mark Otieno suspended hours to 100m dash at Tokyo Olympics

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Mark Otieno leading in the 100m men category during trials for the Tokyo Olympic games at Kasarani stadium, June 17, 2021. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

Kenya’s 100m sprinter Mark Otieno has been provisionally suspended just hours before he was to take to the track at the Tokyo Olympics.

Otieno returned adverse findings in his urine A sample for what officials here said is a banned substance called methasterone, an anabolic steroid.

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