The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said Tuesday that Olympic refugee team runner Anjelina Nadai Lohalith has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for Trimetazidine, Agence France-Presse reports. The banned substance, usually used to prevent and treat the symptoms of angina, is the same that put 23 Chinese swimmers in the spotlight recently.

As we, the summoned and assembled media, awaited the start of Usain Bolt’s press conference in a very large room inside the Nuo Hotel - a start which was by now delayed more than half an hour - it became apparent that the reggae which had been thumping and bumping away in the foreground during that time was on a loop.

Bob Marley’s One Love did its thing once again. Meanwhile the long black leather sofa in front of us remained untenanted, flanked by dotted red and green spotlights trained on the crystalline ceiling.

Alberto Salazar has responded to allegations made earlier this month in a BBC Panorama documentary that he violated anti-doping rules in his coaching of several athletes within the Nike Oregon Project, most notably Galen Rupp, the Olympic 10,000 metres silver medallist, has issued his long-awaited riposte in the form of a 12,000 word open letter.

Alberto Salazar, coach to Britain’s world and Olympic 5,000 and 10,000 metres  champion Mo Farah, has refuted allegations of anti-doping violations made in a BBC documentary, which implicate Galen Rupp, the United States 10,000m record holder and Olympic silver medallist.