“Lack of education on betting was one of several mitigating factors in arriving at the sanctions,” the AIU said, “with all three athletes also offering early admission, demonstrating genuine remorse for their actions and having previously possessed clean disciplinary records.”
Track and field athletes punished for betting on teammates at world and European champs
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The Athletics Integrity Unit, which was founded in 2017 as part of track's response to the doping crisis, said it was the “last batch” of doping cases using data from the shuttered Moscow anti-doping laboratory where cases were covered up.
Doping bans issued for 12 Russians in track and field cases going back over a decade
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