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Kipyokei gets 6-year doping ban, loses Boston Marathon title

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FILE - Purity Rionoripo of Kenya crosses the finish line to win the 41st Paris Marathon women's race, in Paris, Sunday, April 9, 2017. Kenyan marathoner Diana Kipyokei has been banned for six years and stripped of her 2021 Boston Marathon title for doping and tampering. Purity Rionoripo, also of Kenya, received a five-year ban for similar offenses. Rionoripo won the 2017 Paris Marathon. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)


Kenyan marathoner Diana Kipyokei has been banned for six years and stripped of her 2021 Boston Marathon title for doping and tampering, the Athletics Integrity Unit said Tuesday.

Kipyokei's urine sample after winning in Boston in October 2021 had traces of triamcinolone acetonide - an anti-inflammatory prohibited at races when an athlete does not have permission to use it as a medication.

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