{"id":167,"date":"2014-11-01T13:22:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T13:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/drugs-in-sport\/?p=167"},"modified":"2014-11-01T13:22:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T13:22:11","slug":"rita-jeptoo-fails-drug-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/featured\/rita-jeptoo-fails-drug-test","title":{"rendered":"Rita Jeptoo fails drug test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/drugs-in-sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/rita-jeptoo.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-169\" title=\"rita jeptoo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/drugs-in-sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/rita-jeptoo.jpg\" alt=\"rita jeptoo\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/rita-jeptoo.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/rita-jeptoo-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kenyan marathon runner Rita Jeptoo has become the latest athlete from the country to fail a doping test.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) informed Athletics Kenya of traces of a banned substance in Jeptoo&#8217;s &#8216;A&#8217; sample.<\/p>\n<p>An Athletics Kenya statement on the 33-year-old read: &#8220;The result of the &#8216;A&#8217; sample for the athlete has indicated the presence of prohibited substances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-six Kenyans have been confirmed as failing tests in the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>Moses Kiptanui, one of most successful runners in Kenyan history, claimed last year doping is rife among the country&#8217;s athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Kenyan marathon runners Wilson Loyanae Erupe and Nixon Kiplagat Cherutich tested positive for banned substances in February 2013 and were both suspended for two years by Athletics Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>Athletics Kenya said its medical and anti-doping commission will meet next week with Jeptoo &#8220;to establish whether she would wish to exercise her right to order for testing of the &#8216;B&#8217; sample&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Jeptoo has won the previous two Boston and Chicago marathons and also previously won the Stockholm, Paris, Milan and Lisbon marathons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenyan marathon runner Rita Jeptoo has become the latest athlete from the country to fail a doping test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169,"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":[93,3,51,7],"tags":[8,59,96],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-featured","category-marathon","category-news","tag-doping","tag-kenya","tag-rita-jeptoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","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=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}