New Zealand Runner Hit With Eight-year Ban For Doping, Fraud

Commonwealth Games medallist Zane Robertson was banned from all sports for eight years by a tribunal in New Zealand on Wednesday after testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug and falsifying documents. Athletics NZ chief executive Peter Pfitzinger told AFP this is the longest ban handed out to an athlete from New Zealand. The 33-year-old Robertson, who is based in Kenya, won bronze over 5,000 metres at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and also ran for New Zealand at the last two Olympic Games. He tested positive for performance-enhancing erythropoietin (EPO) at...