Ethiopian 1500m star Diribe Welteji has been suspended for the 2025 World Championships

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Big day of news. Since the Norah Jeruto/Tobi Amusan fails, it looks like the AIU is on a heater. Expect Welteji to serve a ban.

Do you know on what basis Eth-NADO wanted to excuse the test refusal?

And I assume it's too late for Ethiopia to field a replacement in the women's 1500?

I think F. Hailu was the listed alternate. She is already coming there for the 5,000. Same mgmt as Welteji ironically.

good riddance. time to start swooping up these blatant EPOthian dopers plauging our sport. if the federation tried to cover this up, hopefully we can start fast tracking a blanket ban. theyve evaded the spotlight for far to long, no doubt they have a comparable number of dopers to kenya

Yes. Because she’s Ethiopian.

This reminds me of Spain and Contador. When people wonder why there are less Ethiopia doping busts than Kenya (despite the fact that the Ethiopians are clearly just as dirty), I would say authorities that are willing to green light doping is a big reason.

Replace one doper with another, including Hiltz. Just watched her finish dead last in 2019, with a time of 4:04 or 4:06. At 25 years old.

With the way women progress late in the game, I guess there's still hope for Tuohy

I haven't been following this story, so does anyone know what the Ethiopian anti-doping agency's justification was for clearing her of a drug test refusal?

Wow. You guys were just discussing on the podcast that Hiltz was #4 on paper for Worlds, who would have seen this coming just a few days later?

Ha!

The prevalence of National bodies excusing ADRVs is everywhere. She mist have has some nonsense story.

I wonder do WA review them all? They were the ones who appealed to CAS AFAIK but it should reflect poorly on the Ethopian administration is they're found to roll over for BS excuses

Oh, bs. Hiltz hasn't tested positive, whether by being clean or by evading tests I don't know.

Now, if Hiltz ever does test positive for something like testosterone, that's when you'll see the political fallout.

But the idea that Hiltz is openly doping with easily-detectable amounts and being given a pass by the AIU is absurd.

This is massive news, this isn't some random east African, this is IMO the #2 woman in the world for 1500 who is now banned. It makes you wonder how many are really doping at the highest level and how many federations are trying to protect their athletes.

Yall are so tired with this testosterone doping BS. It’s one of the EASIEST drugs to detect and would throw Hiltz out of the allowable range.

it's just low iq nonsense, and this is coming from someone who thinks she is unbelievably cringe and delusional with regards to her so called "gender identity".

there's literally no evidence she is on test.

Congrats to the AIU for getting this done - another example of how compared to other global sporting bodies, World Athletics really does do an incredible job going after their own athletes. Sure, Welteji doesn't really move the needle (figuratively speaking of course) either way, but she is the 8th fastest performer ever. Better than nobody.

Just quietly, even though Kenya has it's awful reputation and it's athletes are treated with enormous amounts of skepticism (which they should be), I wouldn't say its neighbor to the north is that much better - just a lot more sophisticated in keeping things on the DL.

Just banned from the WC. I wonder if ATHLOS will act on this? She is still listed as of right now. Alexis Ohanian is in Tokyo for "Athlos business" according to his twitter post from yesterday.

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