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Failing to update whereabouts leads to bans but Kenyans do it

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Diana Kipyokei, 2021 Boston Marathon winner. [Reuters]

It is a little hard to pinpoint when, exactly, 2022 became the Year of ''Whereabouts Failures'' that adversely affected Kenyan athletes.

In 2020, former world marathon record holder Wilson Kipsang and 2016 Olympic 800m finalist Alfred Kipketer was provisionally suspended.

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