Kenya athletes fail drug test

Two Kenyan runners, Viola Chelangat Kimetto and Joyce Jemutai Kiplimo, have failed drug tests and been banned for two years, Athletics Kenya has said.

Both women tested positive for norandrosterone, a metabolite of nandrolone.

Kimetto failed her test at the Macau marathon in December 2013; Kiplimo failed a test taken after the Yangzhou half-marathon in April.

Neither runner has commented on the test results.

Athletics Kenya said it was also investigating five other athletes.

It said they had been told to report to its office by tomorrow over "particular issues revolving around doping cases" raised by the organisation's anti-doping unit.

Kimetto and Kiplimo are the latest in about 40 Kenyan athletes to fail doping tests in the past two years.  

Credit: BBC