Athletics: Two Kenyan athletes suspended for doping - AIU

FILE PHOTO: Joyce Chepkirui of Kenya takes first place ahead of compatriot Florence Kiplagat in the Women's 10000m final at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, July 29, 2014. REUTERS/Jim Young/File Photo

NAIROBI (Reuters) - The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Tuesday it had provisionally suspended two Kenyan athletes, one of them a Commonwealth Games former champion, for doping, the latest in a string of doping cases in the East African nation.

The AIU said in a statement on its website it had suspended Joyce Chepkirui, the 2014 Commonwealth Games and Africa 10,000 metres champion, for discrepancy in her Athlete Biological Passport (ABP).