She had competed in the meter heats at the Tokyo Olympics and was scheduled to run in the semi-final before being suspended. The AIU said Okagbare had previously tested positive, and charged her with the presence and use of a prohibited substance following the detection of human growth hormone.
Email: info devdiscourse. Home News Sports Article. Science News Roundup: Older date for Ethiopian fossils sheds light on rise o Give Feedback. Sign up for our Sport newsletter. US charges therapist with giving drugs to athletes for Tokyo Olympics. Please try again later. The Sydney Morning Herald. January 13, — Appearing via Zoom before U. Magistrate Judge Miguel Torres in El Paso, Lira, wearing a dark blue button-down t-shirt and surgical face mask, said he was "not very aware of the charges" and was in the process of hiring a private lawyer.
Torres scheduled a bail hearing for Jan. Marshals Service. Travis Tygart, chief executive of the U. Anti-Doping Agency, in a statement called the charges "a huge win for all clean athletes and those who value fair sport. Prosecutors said they had obtained encrypted messages in which Lira and one of the athletes discussed the athlete's performance running the meters, suggesting the athlete was a sprinter involved in the athletics competition.
Some details in the complaint, including race dates and times and the athlete's suspension, correspond with Okagbare, who had won a silver medal in the long jump at the Beijing Olympics in
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