Olympic athlete, Peter Bol has been handed provisional suspension.

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Olympic athlete, Peter Bol has been handed provisional suspension.

Australian middle-distance runner Peter Bol has been  provisionally suspended from athletics after being tested positive for a banned substance.

The Australian 800m runner, who finished fourth at the Tokyo Olympics, returned an adverse finding for the performance-enhancing drug erythropoetin, better known as EPO at an out-of-competition test last October.

The 28-year-old enjoyed a fine 2022 with seventh at the World Championships in Eugene and silver in the Birmingham Commonwealth Games.

Athletics Australia delivered the provisional suspension and insists Bol is forbidden from training at national or club level and cannot compete or receive funding or use of official facilities.