Australian Olympic athlete Peter Bol fails out-of-competition doping test

Peter Bol competes at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. The 800m runner has failed an out of competition doping test. Photograph: David Ramos/Getty Images

The Olympic athlete Peter Bol has been provisionally suspended by Athletics Australia after the 800m runner failed an out-of-competition doping test.

Bol, whose performances at the Tokyo Olympics marked him out as one of Australia’s brightest track and field stars, was informed last week that an A sample taken from him in October last year returned an “adverse analytical finding”.