In July 2020 the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) of World Athletics has reported an an anti-doping rule violation against the Kenyan Athlete Elijah Managoi for his Whereabouts Filing Failures resulting in 3 Missed Tests within a 12 month period, beginning in July 2019.
After notification the Athlete gave a prompt admission, waived his right for a hearing, accepted a provisional suspension and the sanction proposed by the AIU.
The AIU’s finds in this case that the Athlete's degree of risk is significant. It holds that there is an inherent and increased risk of inaccuracies and delays to filing and updating Whereabouts information in circumstances where an athlete delegates those responsibilities to a third-party.
The Athlete accepted that he simply ‘trusted’ the Delegate to maintain his Whereabouts information and to make updates on his behalf. This was done without any oversight and without the Athlete checking whether the information in his Whereabouts Filing (and any updates made to that information) was accurate. As a result the Athlete failed to exercise any care or investigation in relation to what should have been the perceived significant level of risk in these circumstances.
Therefore the AIU decides on 10 November 2020 to impose a 2 year period of ineligibility on the Athlete starting backdated on the date of third Whereabouts Faulure, i.e. 22 December 2019.