FILE PHOTO: Athletics - World Athletics Championships - Doha 2019 - Men's 110 Metres Hurdles Heats - Khalifa International Stadium, Doha, Qatar - September 30, 2019 Neutral athlete Sergey Shubenkov REUTERS/Aleksandra Szmigiel/File Photo
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian hurdler Sergey Shubenkov has been cleared in what the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Tuesday was a "genuinely exceptional" doping case involving a diuretic prescribed to a family member.
The AIU, which oversees integrity issues in global athletics, said that a low concentration of acetazolamide had been found in Shubenkov's out-of-competition sample collected in December 2020.
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