Kenyan-Born Athlete Nelly Jepkosgei banned for faking car crash

Kenyan-born middle distance runner Nelly Jepkosgei has been banned for three years after accepting a charge of tampering with evidence, a violation of World Athletics’ anti-doping rules, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said.

Jepkosgei, 29, who is ranked 27th in the world in the women’s 800m, missed a doping test on March 18 and offered fake evidence in the form of a forged document to explain the whereabouts failure, the AIU said in a statement.

Jepkosgei, who now competes for Bahrain, had informed the AIU that she missed the test because she had been at Kapsabet County Referral Hospital, where her sister had been admitted after being involved in a serious car accident.

Middle-distance runner Nelly Jepkosgei of Bahrain has been banned for three years having accepted a charge of tampering, a violation of the @WorldAthletics Anti-Doping Rules.