Turkey’s Asli Cakir Alptekin, who won the women’s 1500m gold medal at the London Olympics last year, was charged with doping by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) on Friday.

GENEVA -- Olympic champion Asli Cakir Alptekin has agreed to give up her 1,500-meter title and serve an eight-year ban for blood doping, dealing another blow to track and field. A settlement by the ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- A Turkish runner stripped of her Olympic 1,500-meter title for blood doping wants her ban cut for helping a World Anti-Doping Agency inquiry into corruption in athletics. The ...

GENEVA — Olympic champion Asli Cakir Alptekin has agreed to give up her 1,500-meter title and serve an 8-year ban for blood doping, dealing another blow to track and field. A settlement by the Turkish ...

Asli Cakir Alptekin, who won Olympic gold at London 2012 before being stripped of the title, has been banned for life by the Turkish Athletics Federation for a third doping offence, state-run Anadolu ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Olympic champion Asli Cakir Alptekin has agreed to give up her 1,500-meter title and serve an 8-year ban for blood doping, dealing ...