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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016 SPORTS Qatari runner Balla arrested in Spanish doping probe BARCELONA: Spanish police said they took Somali track coach Jama Aden, was the culmination of a long-running and 2013 world indoor 1500m champion The 25-year-old world record holder is had arrested a Qatari athlete yesterday as whose Ethiopian protege Genzebe investigation including Interpol, the Ayanleh Souleiman of Djibouti. But Aden the big favourite to strike gold in the part of an ongoing investigation into drug Dibaba is the current world 1500m cham- Spanish National Anti-Doping Agency has also courted controversy, with women’s 1500m at the August 5-21 Rio trafficking that has already seen one of pion, and a physiotherapist into custody (AEPSAD) and Spanish police. Driouch handed a two-year ban for Games. A spokesman for the Ethiopian the world’s top coaches taken into cus- on Monday, both charged with having Aden has a proven track record of nur- inconsistencies in his biological passport athletics federation told AFP on Tuesday tody. Media reported that the man arrest- administered athletes with banned sub- turing some of the best middle-distance and French runner Laila Traby also being that it was in the dark about Dibaba. ed was Sudanese-born Qatari Musaeb stances. Aden was picked up in a dawn runners. Aside from Dibaba, he has banned after testing positive for blood- “We have no information about Abdulrahman Balla, the two-time defend- raid at a hotel in the Catalonian town of coached two-time world indoor 800m boosting EPO. Driouch at first claimed Genzebe Dibaba at this time,” the ing Asian 800m champion who finished Sabadell occupied by a group of athletes champion Abubaker Kaki Khamis and Aden had doped him, but later retracted spokesman said.
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