BUDAPEST, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Australian Peter Bol endured an anti-climatic appearance at the World Athletics Championships on Tuesday as, having had a doping suspension lifted only weeks before the event, he looked well off the pace in the 800m heats and failed to progress.
Bol, fourth at the Tokyo Olympics and the Commonwealth Games silver medallist last year, was provisionally suspended in January after testing positive for synthetic erythropoietin (EPO).
However, in an unusual development, an "atypical finding" was discovered in his B sample leading to the ban being lifted in February.
However, the case dragged on until the start of August when he was finally cleared by Sport Integrity Australia.
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Persons:
Peter Bol, Bol, Emmanuel Korir, Emmanuel Wanyonyi, Mitch Phillips, Toby Davis
Organizations:
Tokyo Olympics, Commonwealth Games, Sport Integrity, Thursday's, Kenyan, Thomson
Locations:
BUDAPEST, Budapest