Athletics Integrity Unit bans Asian Games steeplechase champion

Monaco: Asian Games steeplechase champion Hosein Keyhani has been banned for doping.

The Athletics Integrity Unit, which handles doping instances in music and subject, says the Iranian runner has been banned four years over a fantastic test for stamina-booster EPO.

Keyhani is also disqualified from April’s Asian song and field championships, in which he did not protect the 3,000-meter steeplechase title he received in 2017, finishing fourth in the back of Bahraini champion John Kibet Koech.

Keyhani gained the Asian Games gold medal in 2018 and the Asian indoor title in the 3,000 the same year.

The AIU also says that Indian distance runner Sanjivani Jadhav has been provisionally suspended after testing superb for the banned substance probenecid. She won Asian championships bronze inside the 5,000 in 2017 and the ten,000 in April.

Shanghai: Rafael Benitez admits he faces a stiff assignment in China but hopes to “create something extraordinary” at Dalian Yifang, in which he can rely upon the deep wallet of the membership’s proprietor, massive Chinese conglomerate Wanda Group.

In separate feedback published on both his very own and the club’s web sites, the 2005 Champions League winner with Liverpool stated he was approached on previous occasions approximately a flow to China but that nothing coated up pretty as Dalian’s provide.

“This club has all the additives that we were seeking out to begin a new chapter with the maximum motivation,” Benitez, who parted methods with Newcastle United final week, said on his home web page.

The 59-year-old Spaniard singled out Wanda chairman Wang Jianlin, China’s fourth-richest character in line with Forbes magazine, as a person “keen to grow this membership… With all the vital resources.”

Benitez, who turned into introduced as Dalian’s new supervisor on Tuesday, stated his immediate recognition was to construct on the on-pitch successes of a group that turned into promoted returned to the Chinese Super League (CSL) this year after being relegated in 2014 and has climbed to mid-table at the season’s 1/2-way point.

But he additionally intends to play the great recreation using solidifying the membership’s foundations with a revamp of its youth skills gadget. “We comprehend it won’t be easy as there are some large rivals, but we are assured that there are big potential and high-quality commitment from the directors of the club to create something high-quality at this membership,” Benitez said.

In comments on the team’s site, he stated the pass “is certainly an undertaking for me.” The club — positioned in the town of Dalian in northeastern China — has by no means received a CSL title and its 2014 relegation brought about a player exodus and questions about its destiny.

But Wanda Group, considered one of China’s most prominent businesses, took over it closing yr, leading to the signings of Argentine worldwide Nicolas Gaitan and Slovakia’s Marek Hamsik. Benitez has already joined team education and makes his debut on Sunday towards Henan Jianye. The golf equipment percentage 10th area inside the 16-team pinnacle tier.

The Spaniard — who has controlled a number of the area’s most extensive golf equipment together with Liverpool, Inter Milan, Chelsea, and Real Madrid — exchanges one northeastern commercial city for another.

He became a hugely famous figure at Newcastle after leading the club to promotion in his first complete season and stabilizing the team in the Premier League during the last two years. But he failed to settle with Newcastle’s proprietors on a contract extension.