Kenyan Marathoner Salome Biwott Gets 8-Year Doping Ban

The IAAF Athletics Integrity Unit has handed the 36-year-old runner, who was also banned for two years in 2012 for another doping offence, the maximum eight-year ban. Biwott recently finished second at Sao Paulo International Marathon.

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