IAAF wants Jeptoo ban doubled to four years


Kenyan marathon runner Rita Jeptoo arrives at the Athletics Kenya headquarters Nairobi, January 15, 2015. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

LONDON (Reuters) - Athletics' world governing body has asked the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to double the two-year doping ban handed out to Kenya's Boston and Chicago marathon winner Rita Jeptoo, CAS said on its website on Tuesday.

In the biggest drugs scandal to hit the East African country in recent years, Jeptoo failed an out-of-competition test in September for the blood-booster EPO although she denies doping and has appealed to CAS for the suspension to be lifted.

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