Former Olympic champion Asbel Kiprop gives up fight to clear name over doping

By PA Sport

Image: Asbel Kiprop was upgraded to a gold medal at the 2008 Olympics

Former Olympic champion Asbel Kiprop has given up the fight to clear his name over a positive doping sample.

The Kenyan middle-distance runner was found to have traces of EPO in his system after a test in November 2017 but maintained the sample had been tampered with by officials.

Kiprop wrote in a Facebook post: "I have let the struggle to prove my innocence go.

"Not because I doped but I take the sacrifice because I support the anti-doping campaign."

The 28-year-old had previously admitted giving money to drug testers out of "generosity" but claimed he was punished because he did not pay them enough.

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Kiprop won the silver medal in the 1500m at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 but was upgraded to gold when Bahrain's Rashid Ramzi failed a drugs test.

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