Tokyo Olympics hero Peter Bol tests positive to performance enhancing drug
- Running star Peter Bol has tested positive to a performance enhancing drug
- He will now await the results of a B sample after testing positive to EPO
- Bol is the national 800m record holder and finished fourth at the Olympics
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Australian athletics has been rocked with middle-distance star Peter Bol testing positive for a performance enhancing drug.
Athletics Australia has confirmed that Bol, the fastest Australian over 800 metres in history, returned a positive A sample to performance enhancing drug EPO and will now face a nervous wait for the results of the B sample.
He has been provisionally suspended until those results are made clear.
The drugs scandal will likely have an impact on Bol’s potential selection as Young Australian of the Year next Thursday.
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Australian middle-distance champion Peter Bol has tested positive to the performance enhancing drug EPO
He had been awarded Western Australia’s Young Australian of the Year for his work as a coach, mentor, keynote speaker, and philanthropist.
The drugs scandal will likely have an impact on Bol’s potential selection as Young Australian of the Year next Thursday. He had been awarded Western Australia’s Young Australian of the Year for his work as a coach, mentor, keynote speaker, and philanthropist.
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