The majority of Bahrain's women's athletics team is composed of athletes who do not have parents who had Bahrain citizenship and were not born in Bahrain.
Bahrain Athletes continue to fail drug tests
Other Bahraini athletes to fail drug tests include Morrocan born 1500m 2008 Olympic Champion Rashid Ramzi in 2009. He was found with Cera a variant of EPO.
Ruth Jebet the Olympic Steeple Chase Gold Medalist in Rio a Kenyan born athlete was suspended in February 2018 for testing positive for EPO.