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Athletics - World Athletics Championships - Doha 2019 - Men s 5000 Metres Heats - Khalifa International Stadium, Doha, Qatar - September 27, 2019 Britain s Andrew Butchart reacts REUTERS/Aleksandra Szmigiel
July 17 (Reuters) - Britain s 5,000 metres runner Andrew Butchart will compete in the Tokyo Olympics after UK Athletics handed him a suspended ban for saying he had changed the date on a COVID-19 test result to return to Britain from a meet before clarifying his remarks.
In a now-deleted episode of The Sunday Plodcast, Butchart had said there was a delay in getting his PCR test result before his flight home from the United States and he had changed the date on an old test as he prepared for check-in, the Times newspaper had reported. read more
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