Kenya’s Jeptoo requests B test


Kenya's Rita Jeptoo reacts after winning the women's division at the 118th running of the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts April 21, 2014. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's Rita Jeptoo, winner of the Boston and Chicago Marathons for the last two years, has asked for a B test after failing an out-of-competition doping test in September, officials said on Tuesday.

Jeptoo met Kenyan athletics chiefs who informed her that she had been provisionally suspended from competition.

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