The 2025 Tokyo World Athletics Championships were gearing up to be an amazing celebration of what athletes can achieve, all happening at the famous National Stadium. Everyone was buzzing with excitement for some record-breaking performances from superstars like Mondo Duplantis and Keely Hodgkinson. But just a day before the big event, things took a sharp turn with a surge of controversy. The sporting world was rocked when American sprint phenom Erriyon Knighton received a devastating four-year doping ban for a positive steroid test, shattering the men’s 200-meter field.

In a surprising turn of events, Ethiopian 1500m silver medalist Diribe Welteji was suddenly declared ineligible due to a pending case involving her alleged refusal to take a drug test, shaking up the women’s middle-dista

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