Simon Magakwe, the first South African to break the sub-10-second barrier in the 100 metres, has been banned for two years for refusing to submit a sample to doping officials.<\/p>\n
Several months ago, Magakwe refused to give a urine sample when approached by testers in an an out-of-competition test.<\/p>\n
Athletics SA has confirmed to The Citizen newspaper that Magakwe\u2019s ban will run until 22 Dec 2016 and that makes ineligible to compete at next year\u2019s Rio Olympics.<\/p>\n
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the global body of athletics, treat the refusal to submit a sample as a doping offence.<\/p>\n
Source: ANA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Simon Magakwe, the first South African to break the sub-10-second barrier in the 100 metres, has been banned for two years for refusing to submit a sample to doping officials. Several months ago, Magakwe refused to give a urine sample when approached by testers in an an out-of-competition test. Athletics SA has confirmed to The … Continue reading “Black SA athlete banned for 2 years”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[840,5276,11487,11489,11488],"class_list":["post-18487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-athlete","tag-athletics","tag-doping","tag-simon-magakwe","tag-sprinter"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18488,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18487\/revisions\/18488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}