Two-time reigning Boston and Chicago Marathon champion Rita Jeptoo failed a doping test, showing up positive for a banned substance from a late September sample weeks before her Oct. 12 win in Chicago.
The failed A sample test — Jeptoo's B sample hasn't yet been taken — was first reported by RunBlogRun. Even though the International Association of Athletics Federations and World Anti-Doping Agency haven't commented, it was confirmed by her agent and tacitly by the World Marathon Majors' cancelation of its Sunday press conference to bestow the Kenyan star with its award as the year's top marathoner.
"I'm still a little bit shocked about Rita,'' Jeptoo's coach, Claudio Berardelli, said. "[IAAF] asked me if I'd heard anything and I said, 'Not really.' That's what's shocking me. I'm there for the last 11 years, 11 months a year. I feel stupid.
"It's even for those that are clean. That's my main concern. I have a large number of athletes and I thinking of all those honest athletes that are going to be affected. … The entire Kenyan system will be affected, the credibility. Now people will say, 'Now we know. We know why the Kenyan runner can run fast.' But I know why they run fast. I know how they train, the motivation."
Jeptoo, who won her third Boston Marathon this year in a personal record and course-record 2:18:57, wasn't entered in Sunday's New York City Marathon. But she had already clinched the World Marathon Majors crown and the $500,000 prize — money she may never see now.
"We've put money into a [testing] program and this is part of the program. All we can do is help the federations test. We've taken really stern position, a really tough position on people who fail drug tests,'' said WMM general counsel Nick Bitel.
"Cheats need to understand that they are not welcome in our sport and that they will be caught."
Earlier this month, a report on doping in Kenya found the East African country had trouble with a host of athletes in various sports using banned substances.
"It's good, it shows testing is being carried out, more adequate testing. It has to be uniform. I'm not picking on Kenya here, but it has to be uniform wherever you are, Ethiopia or MoroccoWherever you are, it needs to be the same, U.S. or the U.K., the testing has to be the same, has to be uniform,'' said world recordholder and three-time New York champ Paula Radcliffe.
"The rumors for a long time [were] that the right testing hasn't been carried out in East Africa, lots of different areas. It's not good for them either, because there are a lot of athletes there working extremely hard and training extremely hard, and they want to prove they're clean as well.''
Russian Liliya Shobukhova — second-fastest in history behind Radcliffe — got a two-year doping ban in April and stripped of all her results since October 2009, but the WMM still hasn't managed to get back any money after she won back-to-back titles in 2010 and 2011.
"In the past, the World Marathon Majors had been burned where they lost two [winners' purses],'' said Radcliffe. "At least this time it happened before the payouts.''
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