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Nijel Amos, who is serving a three-year doping ban, could see his country punished by World Athletics.
Botswana’s former Olympic 800m silver medallist Nijel Amos, who is serving a three-year doping ban, could land his country in trouble for violating the terms of his suspension.
Amos, who is banned from athletics activities, is deemed to be still associating with the sport after he was recently photographed at the launch of a marathon in Botswana alongside another past doper Amantle Montsho, the 2018 Commonwealth Games 400m champion, and ex-footballer Diphetogo Selolwane
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07:32 - 02.10.2023
ATHLETICS A look into Noah Lyles "World Champion" cap that costs approximately Ksh5000
Noah Lyles is a champion when it comes to making money on and off the track.
Botswana could face the wrath of World Athletics following the sighting of the suspended Amos in the group photograph with concerns raised over the athlete’s association with the sport throughout his suspension.
Initially handed a four-year suspension by World Athletics, Amos saw his ban reduced to three after admitting his culpability.
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14:23 - 10.05.2023
ATHLETICS ‘Broke’ Nijel Amos to sell Olympics medal as doping ban begins to bite
The Botswana runner is set to sell the country’s first Olympics medal to cushion his family after he was handed a three-year suspension by AIU
Botswana Athletics Association's (BAA) is the one with the responsibility of ensuring strict adherence to the ban's stipulations, hence the spotlight on the country’s athletics governing body.
Amos, who took silver at the 2012 London Olympics, in what many called the greatest Olympic race in history when Kenya’s David Rudisha lowered his world record, was suspended in May after he tested positive for the banned substance GW1516, with his ban starting in July 2022.
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12:55 - 03.05.2023
ATHLETICS Botswana’s Nijel Amos handed three-year doping ban as AIU nabs another big fish
The 29-year-old was provisionally suspended in 2022 but will now be out for a longer period after admitting to using a banned substance.
Amos matched Seb Coe, now World Athletics president, as the third-fastest man in history in the event (1:41.73) 11 years ago. Every runner’s time was the fastest ever for that finishing placement.
He escaped a longer four-year suspension, having admitted to the offence, adding to the fact that it was his first doping offence, but he has since apologised to his country for embarrassing them.
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07:06 - 02.10.2023
ATHLETICS The amount of money Faith Kipyegon earned from disappointing third-place finish in Riga
Despite finishing third at the World Road Running Championships, Faith Kipyegon will have some money to take back home.
A week after his suspension, Amos said he planned to sell his Olympics medal, the first for his country, to survive as he began to feel the full impact of the ban.
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