Elijah Manangoi takes his two year suspension...

Elijah Manangoi takes the 1,500m, London 2017, photo by Mike Deering / The Shoe Addicts

Unlike many others, Elijah Manangoi has taken his punishment by the Athletics Integrity Unit due to his 3 whereabout failures. I have to admit that the three excuses on the whereabouts misses are, perhaps, all time classics.

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None the less, Elijah Manangoi has taken his punishment and we will see him in 2 years…

NAIROBI (KEN): Kenya’s 2017 world 1500m champion Elijah Manangoi has accepted the two year suspension imposed on him by the AIU for three whereabouts failures. He said: “I have received the verdict from AIU and as I sit here, I have acknowledged that I made a mistake on my whereabouts failures and I have accepted their decisions, though it will be difficult to forgive myself. I’m a clean athlete and I will be back on track and win right.”

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— Manangoi Lion (@ManangoiElijah) April 24, 2018

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