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The IOC also acknowledged its disappointment surrounding 1500m runner Anjelina Lohalith’s recent provisional suspension for a positive drugs test.
Lohalith, who fled South Sudan as a child, tested positive for allegedly using the banned heart medication trimetazidine.
She was being funded by an IOC scholarship for her third summer Games.
“Of course we are disappointed,” said James Macleod of the IOC.
“Any refugee athlete has the same rights and responsibilities as any athlete in the world and has to follow the rules.
“We have been working to make sure all of the athletes in the programme have had very good education around anti-doping matters but also are tested on a regular basis.”
Macleod added that any athlete who tests positive will be removed from the scholarship programme.
In March, Dominic Lokolong Atiol – also a 1500m runner originally from South Sudan – was provisionally suspended for allegedly taking the same substance.
And in December, 3,000m steeplechase runner Fouad Idbafdil, who was born in Morocco, was given a three-year ban after testing positive for endurance-boosting hormone EPO.
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