Paris 2024 Video games: Refugee Olympic Staff picks GB-based boxer Cindy Ngamba


The IOC additionally acknowledged its disappointment surrounding 1500m runner Anjelina Lohalith’s current provisional suspension for a constructive medication take a look at.

Lohalith, who fled South Sudan as a baby, examined constructive for allegedly utilizing the banned coronary heart treatment trimetazidine.

She was being funded by an IOC scholarship for her third summer season Video games.

“After all we’re disillusioned,” stated James Macleod of the IOC.

“Any refugee athlete has the identical rights and tasks as any athlete on the planet and has to comply with the principles.

“We’ve got been working to ensure the entire athletes within the programme have had excellent schooling round anti-doping issues but additionally are examined regularly.”

Macleod added that any athlete who assessments constructive shall be faraway from the scholarship programme.

In March, Dominic Lokolong Atiol – additionally a 1500m runner initially from South Sudan – was provisionally suspended for allegedly taking the identical substance.

And in December, 3,000m steeplechase runner Fouad Idbafdil, who was born in Morocco, was given a three-year ban after testing constructive for endurance-boosting hormone EPO.

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