FILE PHOTO - Athletics - Berlin Marathon - Berlin, Germany - September 16, 2018 Kenya's Wilson Kipsang celebrates finishing third in the Berlin Marathon REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
(Reuters) - Former marathon world record holder Wilson Kipsang of Kenya has been handed a four-year ban for anti-doping rule violations that included using a fake photo of a traffic accident to justify one of four missed wheareabouts appointments, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Friday.
World Athletics said Kipsang had four whereabouts failures between April 2018 and May 2019. Three such failures within 12 months leads to an automatic ban.
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