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Former Olympic 1500m champion, Asli Cakir Alptekin has been banned for life after a third doping offence.
In 2015, the 32-year-old was stripped of her 2012 Olympic and European titles and suspended for eight years by the Turkish Athletics Federation.
She returned this year after the ban was halved and its start date backdated to 2013, but has since reoffended.
“We are never, ever going to allow doping,” said Turkish Athletics Federation chief Fatih Cintimar.
Six of the first nine finishers in the women’s 1500m final at the 2012 Olympics have been given drugs bans, leading some to refer to it as the “dirtiest race in history”. Straight after the race, Britain’s Lisa Dobriskey, who finished 10th, told BBC Radio 5 live: “I don’t believe I’m competing on a level playing field.”
