A star Olympic runner from Australia was suspended over a positive drug test of a kind that critics have called alarmingly open to human error.
MELBOURNE, Australia — Few professional runners become household names. But in Australia, Peter Bol, a middle-distance runner of Sudanese descent, is something of a national hero.
At the Tokyo Olympics, where he was the first Australian man in 53 years to compete in the 800-meter Olympic final, he hurtled into his compatriots’ hearts after he placed fourth in a nail-biter race.