US sprinter Randolph Ross banned 3 years after fake email
FILE - Randolph Ross, of United States, starts a heat in the men's 400-meter run at the 2020 Summer Olympics, on Aug. 1, 2021, in Tokyo. United States sprinter Randolph Ross has been banned for three years for whereabouts failures and faking an email to anti-doping authorities. The Athletics Integrity Unit announced Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022 that the back-to-back NCAA champion from North Carolina A&T will be suspended until June 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)[ASSOCIATED PRESS/Martin Meissner]
MONACO (AP) — United States sprinter Randolph Ross has been banned for three years for whereabouts failures and faking an email to anti-doping authorities. The Athletics Integrity Unit announced that the back-to-back NCAA champion from North Carolina A&T will be suspended until June 30, 2025. That means he’ll be ineligible for the Paris Olympics in 2024. Ross had been provisionally suspended on the eve of his 400-meter preliminary race at the world track and field championships on July 16. That was about a month after officials could not locate him to take an anti-doping test — his third whereabouts failure in a 12-month period.
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