‘Because it’s an elite event, you actually have to expand the testing afterwards ... we have all the controls in place’
Nataliya Lehonkova from Ukraine was the Dublin Marathon women's winner in 2017 but was provisionally banned for doping offences in August. Photograph Nick Bradshawrace director Jim Aughney is confident that every protective measure against doping will be in place for this month’s event.
Changes were made before last year’s race, when granted elite global marathon status, Dublin had to submit all elite entries to World Athletics in advance, to help ensure they were in good standing, and they must also have come through an agent approved by World Athletics.Joe Canning: ‘The drinking shouldn’t have happened ... but to then run the crap out of us was madness’Graham Rowntree on Croke Park: ‘I’ve been around the world at stadiums. I’ve not been to this one before.
“And because it’s an elite event, you actually have to expand the testing afterwards. That happened in 2023 and we’re doing that again in 2024. So I’d be confident we have all the controls in place, absolutely.” Aughney is at least certain the improved shoe technology has had a big impact on marathon times. “Well, the shoe technology has come on hugely ... certainly you see anybody that has them in their local 5 or 10k and they’re seconds up.”
“Well it’s a new start and finish, so effectively it’s like starting all over again,” says Aughney. “It’s amazing the different footprint just throws things up differently. Normally it takes two to three years to bed into a new start-finish, to get everything the way we want it to be. That will be a concern on the morning but, hopefully, we can plug any gaps before somebody else sees them.
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