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Jakob Ingebrigtsen has expressed his disappointment at how smart drug cheats have become in athletics, leading to low positive cases amid increased testing.
Multiple world and European champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen has voiced his frustrations at how it has now become difficult to nab cheating athletes.
The 23-year-old claims doping in athletics is worse now than it was 10 years ago despite sustained efforts by World Athletics to crack down on the vice.
Ingebrigtsen, who won two gold medals in the men’s 1,500m and 3,000m at the European Indoor Championships before defending his 5,000m title at the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary last year, feels that even with increased testing, just a few positive cases are being reported.
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“I think doping is worse now than 10 years ago,” Ingebrigtsen told the Times. “It is difficult to prove that, but it’s what I feel.”
“The problem now is that we see fewer positive tests, and that really concerns me; it is a sign that people are getting smarter and finding better ways to evade detection, or perhaps the tests are not detecting enough.”
The Olympic 1,500m champion believes drug cheats have become clever at beating the system, especially now with whereabouts failure (three missed doping tests in 12 months) nabbing most athletes, an issue he feels is easy to play around with.
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“If you know what you’re doing, that is a genius way of cheating,” he added.
The Norwegian, however, gets great satisfaction from beating suspected dopers, like two-time world championship medalist Mohamed Katir, who was given a two-year ban on whereabouts in February.
“It’s the ultimate destruction. It’s more embarrassing for them—even when they have the audacity to cheat, and they are not doing it right,” said Ingebrigtsen.
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Ingebrigtsen’s concerns come amid a sustained war on doping by World Athletics through the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), which was set up in 2017, with an estimated $8 million (Ksh1.1 billion) put in place to tackle the menace.
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