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Kenyan long-distance runner Joyce Chepkirui has been banned for four years for an athlete biological passport (ABP) violation. The 33-year-old won the 10,000m at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014 and also took the African title over the same distance in Marrakech that year. Chepkirui has been provisionally suspended since June 2019, after an expert panel studied anomalies in blood samples collected by World Athletics between 2016 and 2017. The panel concluded the “likelihood of the abnormalities in results being due to blood manipulation” – the artificial increase of red blood cells using a stimulant – was “high”. Chepkirui…