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Ben Snider-McGrath
Kenya's Georgina Rono was banned from competition for evading a doping test
Over the course of one year, 40 per cent of all the [positive drug tests] recorded in global athletics are in Kenya,” World Athletics (WA) president Seb Coe said following a 2022 WA council meeting. Coe added that WA has been eyeing the ever-growing doping issues in Kenya for some time, and he and his team seriously considered issuing an outright ban of all Kenyan athletes until the problem was sorted.