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Ruth Chepngetich’s Failed Doping Test Casts Shadow Over Women’s Marathon World Record

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Ruth Chepngetich’s Failed Doping Test Casts Shadow Over Women’s Marathon World Record

Here is what the page “Ruth Chepngetich’s Failed Doping Test Casts Shadow Over Women’s Marathon World Record” contains. Two years after Ruth Chepngetich stunned the world with a 2:09:56 marathon in Chicago, her failed doping test has left athletics in crisis. The Kenyan’s record, which smashed the previous mark by nearly two minutes, was hailed as a ‘moon landing’ moment, but now the sport is deeply uneasy and powerless to act. Chepngetich had brushed off doping suspicions at the time, saying ‘People must talk.’ With the record still standing, athletics faces a reckoning over credibility and the limits of anti-doping measures.

The question remains: what can be done to restore trust in the sport’s most iconic record? Nova Global News curates publicly available headlines and summaries with source attribution. Third-party article rights, trademarks, images, and publisher names belong to their respective owners; For the complete material, the listing points back to the source inside the network.

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