A third runner on the Refugee Olympic Team has been suspended for a positive doping test, with the announcement coming two days before the IOC confirms its selection of athletes for the Paris Games.
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Anjelina Nadai Lohalith was notified of her alleged failed test for the banned heart medication trimetazidine and provisionally banned, track and field's Athletics Integrity Unit said.
It gave no timetable for a disciplinary case.
Lohalith, who fled war in South Sudan as a child to a refugee camp in Kenya, was being funded with an International Olympic Committee scholarship to prepare for her third successive Games.
The 31-year-old ran in the 1500 metres for the refugee team in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro and at the Tokyo Olympics held in 2021.
The IOC and the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) have scheduled a media event for Thursday to announce the selection of the refugee team for the Paris Games, which begin in late July.
Lohalith has represented the refugee team at three world championships and was among 29 Olympic Refugee Team members in Tokyo.
UNHCR has said 75 athletes in 14 sports have had scholarships for Paris.
Those athletes come from 12 different nations and now live in 24 host countries.
One scholarship athlete originally from Morocco, 3000m steeplechase runner Fouad Idbafdil, was banned for three years in December after testing positive for the endurance-boosting hormone EPO.
In March, another 1500m runner originally from South Sudan, Dominic Lokolong Atiol, was provisionally suspended for a positive test for trimetazidine.
The medication, known as TMZ, was also found in high-profile positive tests given in 2021 by Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva and - as recently revealed - 23 Chinese swimmers who were preparing for the Tokyo Olympics.
Australian Associated Press
