The ratification on 11 December 2024 of Ruth Chepngetich’s 2:09:56 marathon performance in Chicago on 13 October 2024, which has been greeted with profound scepticism by leading athletics experts because it exceeds the limits of female human potential, is an embodiment and symbol of the abject failure of World Athletics (WA), the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU)
and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to detect and control rampant doping in international athletics.

The failure of WA, AIU and WADA to prevent widespread abuse of performance-enhancing drugs in athletics is a dereliction of their duty to protect the interests of and opportunities for clean athletes to compete fairly against their co-competitors who engage indoping and severely harms the integrity, image, and sustainability of athletics as a viable competitive activity for honest athletes.

Please sign this petition to compel WA, AIU and WADA to disclose all testing, if any, conducted on Chepngetich, in the 12 months prior to 13 October 2024, and to hold these organisations accountable by requiring them to take urgent measures to eliminate doping in athletics, including

(1) the disclosure and suspension and coaches and agents linked to athletes who test positive for doping,

(2) enhanced testing, particularly in East Africa,

(3) reporting back on the enhanced testing on a half yearly basis and

(4) to immediately suspend all athletes from competition for the balance of a calendar year from any country that has more than 10 of its athletes test positive during the calendar year.