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

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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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