{"id":160,"date":"2014-08-16T07:04:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T07:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/drugs-in-sport\/?p=160"},"modified":"2014-08-17T07:06:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T07:06:45","slug":"amantle-montsho-b-sample-confirms-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/featured\/amantle-montsho-b-sample-confirms-positive","title":{"rendered":"Amantle Montsho B sample confirms positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/drugs-in-sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Amantle-Montsho.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-163\" title=\"Amantle Montsho -  Botswana\" src=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/drugs-in-sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Amantle-Montsho.jpg\" alt=\"Amantle Montsho -  Botswana\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Amantle-Montsho.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Amantle-Montsho-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former 400m world champion Amantle Montsho faces a two-year ban after her B sample drugs test from the Commonwealth Games came back positive.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Montsho, 31, had been provisionally suspended after her A sample failed a doping test following the 400m final.<\/p>\n<p>The Botswana athlete, who finished fourth, has until 22 August to appeal to the Commonwealth Games Federation.<\/p>\n<p>The CGF has passed its results to the relevant international federations so a decision on a ban can be made.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Hooper, chief executive of the CGF, said: &#8220;The athlete has been notified of the findings and has the right to respond until Friday, 22 August.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The CGF only has power to disqualify Montsho from the Games following her positive test for banned stimulant methylhexaneamine.<\/p>\n<p>However, if found guilty at her hearing, Montsho will be referred to the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) and other relevant authorities for further sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>Hooper said: &#8220;In the case of the Sri Lankan gold medal boxer Manju Wanniarachchi, who failed a drugs test in Delhi 2010, in accordance with our Anti-Doping Standards, Wada and the International Boxing Federation were notified of his positive test and he was banned for two years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Montsho won Commonwealth gold at Delhi 2010 and the world title in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Her gold medals at Delhi and Daegu were her country&#8217;s first at a Commonwealth Games and World Championships respectively, and she also won silver at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow, losing out to Great Britain&#8217;s Christine Ohuruogu in a dramatic photo-finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former 400m world champion Amantle Montsho faces a two-year ban after her B sample drugs test from the Commonwealth Games came back positive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93,3,7],"tags":[95,94,8],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-featured","category-news","tag-amantle-montsho","tag-botswana","tag-doping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}