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When interviewed in April by the AIU, Chepngetich, the first woman to run a marathon in under 2:10, could not provide an explanation for the positive test.

While HCTZ has a minimum reporting level of 20 nanograms per millilitre (ng/mL) in urine, Chepngetich’s sample showed an estimated concentration of 3,800 ng/mL.

Traces of HCTZ below the minimal reporting level were also identified in a sample collected from Chepngetich two weeks earlier, on 28 February.

At a later interview on 11 July, Chepngetich was presented with the aforementioned suspicious evidence acquired from her phone. In the meantime, contamination had also been disproven by the AIU.

Chepngetich changed her explanation on 31 July, claiming that she had taken her housemaid’s medication – marked as being HCTZ – after becoming ill two days before the positive test.

The AIU had “serious reservations about the credibility of the new version of events” and, in the context of the sport’s anti-doping rules, such “recklessness” is considered “indirect intent, for which an increased four-year sanction applies”.

An automatic one-year reduction was applied after Chepngetich admitted the anti-doping rule violations within the 20 days required.

The three-year ban commenced on 19 April – when Chepngetich accepted a voluntary provisional suspension – with the athlete’s results, awards, titles, appearance and prize money since 14 March forfeited.

AIU chair David Howman said the case underlined that “nobody is above the rules”.

“While disappointing for those who put their trust in this athlete, this is how the system is supposed to work,” Howman said.

“The road-running industry should be commended for collectively funding anti-doping efforts capable of uncovering doping violations committed by elite athletes in their events.”

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A Milwaukee Brewers fan who threatened “let’s call ICE” on a Latino Los Angeles Dodgers fan in a video recorded Tuesday during NLCS Game 2 has lost her job, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Both fans have been banned from the Brewers’ American Family Field.

The woman in the video is Shannon Kobylarczyk, per the Journal Sentinel, which reported that her employer, the Milwaukee-based staffing company Manpower Group, confirmed on Wednesday she is “no longer with the organization.”

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Additionally, the Journal Sentinel reported that Kobylarczyk resigned from her role on the board of directors at Make-A-Wish Wisconsin.

The video captured an altercation between Kobylarczyk and Dodgers fan Ricardo Fosado in the seventh inning, reportedly after Kiké Hernández hit a leadoff double while L.A. led 3-1 en route to a 5-1 victory and a 2-0 series lead against the top-seeded Brewers.

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Fosado recorded a video of him jeering Brewers fans around him, saying “Why is everybody quiet?”

Kobylarczyk responded by saying, “Real men drink beer, p***y!” to Fosado, who was holding a Happy Thursday spiked refresher.

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Fosado continued: “Why is everybody quiet? What is this?”

Moments later, Kobylarczyk tapped the Brewers fan in front of her and said, “You know what, let’s call ICE,” meaning Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Fosado responded that he’s a U.S. Citizen and a war veteran. He told the Journal Sentinel that he served in the U.S. Navy from 2001-05, including in Afghanistan and Iraq.

“ICE is not going to do nothing to me. Good luck,” Fosado said in the video before laughing.

Kobylarczyk batted the camera away.

Fosado repositioned it and exclaimed, “Call ICE! Call ’em. Call ’em, F***ing idiot.”

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After the incident, Kobylarczyk reported Fosado to stadium security, and he was removed from the ballpark, Fosado, a Los Angeles resident and U.S. Citizen of Mexican heritage, told the Journal Sentinel.

“I don’t think it was like horrible or something that should get her fired. I feel bad for her,” Fosado said, according to the Journal Sentinel. “We cannot be judged on one mistake, and a lot of emotions were involved. It was just hurt feelings, nobody physically hurt anybody.”

The Brewers released a statement Thursday, announcing that both Kobylarczyk and Fosado have been banned from American Family Field.

“The Brewers expect all persons attending games to be respectful of each other, and we do not condone in any way offensive statements fans make to each about race, gender or national origin,” the Brewers said in the statement. “Our priority is to ensure that all in attendance have a safe and enjoyable experience at the ballpark.

“In this instance, the Milwaukee Police Department dealt with the individual who was ejected for actions apart from the events depicted in this video, including disorderly conduct and public intoxication.

“Separately, video shows that the other individual involved in the argument became physical in the course of her interaction with the person who was ejected.

“For these reasons, and, in accordance with our Guest Code of Conduct specific to ejections and physical confrontations, both fans are being notified that they are not allowed to return to the ballpark for future events.”

The Dodgers are hosting the Brewers for Games 3 and 4 and a potential Game 5 of the NLCS.

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Olympic silver medallist Laura Muir has said she has put a “difficult chapter firmly behind” her after her former coach Andrew Young was banned for three years for “serious misconduct”.

A UK Athletics disciplinary panel found that Young – who Scotland’s Muir stopped working with in 2023 – “ignored medical advice” and “used manipulative and coercive behaviour towards those he coached”.

One incident highlighted was when Young, “following a disagreement, drove at speed with an athlete in his car before abandoning them at the roadside, disregarding their safety and wellbeing”.

Other examples included “requiring an athlete to compete against the clear advice of a physiotherapist, threatening to exclude athletes from training or races if they did not comply with his demands, and emotionally undermining those who raised concerns about injuries”.

Young faced 39 charges and, in September 2024, a UKA disciplinary panel found nine of those proven “wholly or in part”, with seven of them serious.

He was then suspended for five years in a ban backdated to April 2023.

Young appealed against the ruling and, while an independent panel expressed “a slightly lesser view of the gravity of the misconduct overall” in August 2025 and reduced his ban to three years, “it rejected claims of bias, legal error and unfairness, and it confirmed the misconduct findings in full”.

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The coach who guided Laura Muir to Olympic and world championship medals has been banned for three years for serious misconduct, which included driving at speed with an athlete in his car following a disagreement before abandoning them at the roadside.

Andy Young, who also coached Jemma Reekie to fourth place in the 800m at the Tokyo Games, was found by two independent panels to have placed performance above athlete welfare, ignored medical advice and used manipulative and coercive behaviour towards those he coached.

The 48-year-old, who was UK Athletics†performance coach of the year in 2016, was also found to have made an athlete train when they had pain in their foot which turned out to be a stress fracture, and threatened to exclude athletes from training or races if they did not comply with his demands.

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“Mr Young could be very forceful to the point of exerting pressure so severe that it amounted to manipulation or bullying,†the initial independent panel found in its written judgment. “This resulted in athletes feeling that they had no realistic option but to acquiesce to his wishes if they wished to remain within his training group.â€

Such behaviour, the panel added, included instructing an athlete to post a tweet “that would be very likely to cause annoyance to their sponsor and risked harming their relationship with the sponsor†– something it said was wholly unnecessary.

On another occasion, Young was found to have made a comment about an athleteâ€s weight which upset them while driving. In response, Young began to drive very fast such that the athlete asked to get out of the car. When they did so, Young then drove off.

Muir and Reekie split with Young after disagreements over his behaviour at a warm-weather training camp in Potchefstroom in 2023, after which he was suspended. His ban means he will be able to return in April 2026.

The athletes involved, six in total, are anonymised in the reports. A statement from UKA did not indicate if Reekie was among the complainants, however Muir said she was waving her anonymity to confirm her involvement in this case. “I fully support the decisions reached by both independent panels and I am grateful that the process has been followed through so thoroughly,†she said.

“Athletics has always been my passion, and I am pleased to say that I have rediscovered the love of my sport and the enjoyment of training and working within a supportive and positive coaching environment. I am now focused on the future, looking forward to the next few years of my career, and putting this difficult chapter firmly behind me.â€

Young was banned for five years by the first independent panel after it upheld nine of 37 charges against him. However, that was reduced by three years by an appeals panel.

However, the appeals panel rejected Youngâ€s claims of bias, legal error and unfairness in the initial hearing. It also agreed that seven of his breaches were serious and that revocation of his licence was necessary to protect athletes.

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The verdict is the latest in a series of coaching scandals that have hit British Olympic sport across cycling, swimming, athletics and elsewhere, over the past decade.

However, UK Athletics chief executive Jack Buckner promised that “significant culture change†had been made within his organisation in recent years, including strengthening reporting systems for athletes.

“This has been a difficult and sobering case for everyone involved in athletics,†he said. “There is no level of success on the track which can ever justify behaviours that fall so short of the standards required of a UKA licensed coach.

Young has been approached for comment.

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Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is still not a fan of his new helmet options following the NFL’s decision to ban his previous go-to model.

“Hate it. Hate it, hate it,” Rodgers said Wednesday about his helmet, per ESPN’s Brooke Pryor.

Rodgers’ former helmet, the Schutt Air XP Pro Q11 LTD, was one of seven helmets newly banned by NFL ahead of the 2025 season. According to the NFL, the helmet did not meet league standards in lab testing meant to simulate concussive impacts.

“I mean I wore this one last year, had no concussions, some arbitrary ruling,” Rodgers said about the Schutt Air XP Pro Q11 LTD, per Pryor. “It makes obsolete now. Silly. I should have pushed it more, petitioned to wear it again one more time.”

Rodgers added, “It looks terrible.”

Rodgers originally tried the Schutt F7 Pro helmet this offseason, but said after June minicamp that he “can’t stand” the model.

He then began practicing in the Schutt Air XP Po VTD II, which NBC Sports’ Mike Florio previously described as “one of the few remaining helmets with a smooth, flat shell” that hasn’t yet been banned by the NFL.

Rodgers told reporters in August he didn’t like the Schutt Air XP Po VTD II, either, even after fitting the helmet with a custom facemask.

“Looks like a damn spaceship out there. We’ve got to change it,” Rodgers said in August about the Air XP Pro VTD II. “The facemask doesn’t fit the helmet, because it’s an old facemask, obviously, because I’m old. But we’re trying to find the right helmet right now.”

It seems Rodgers and the Steelers have still been unable to find that right helmet three games into the 2025 season.

The veteran quarterback will look to overcome his helmet discomfort while focusing on the Steelers’ upcoming trip to Dublin for a Week 4 international matchup with the Minnesota Vikings. Sunday’s kickoff is set for 9:30 a.m. ET.

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