Aregawi has tested positive for doping – Aftonbladet

She is already under fire for having given incorrect information when applying for Swedish citizenship.

Now comes the next bomb: Abeba Aregawi has tested positive for doping.

– I was probably something like this: now get the hell enough, says Secretary General Stefan Olsson.

Abeba Aregawi, 25, since she became a Swedish citizen in 2012 has been one of Sweden’s biggest athletics stars. World Championship gold in the 1500 meters indoor and outdoor as well as indoor European Championships and European Championships silver outdoors has made her one of the biggest gold hope for the Olympics in Rio in the summer.

“You get pissed”

But the time that Swedish landslagsstjärna has also been very turbulent. In 2014, it emerged that she barely a year lied about his divorce with her Swedish husband Henok Weldegebriel. And as recently as last weekend revealed Expressen that Abeba Aregawi, in a tax investigation, said that she stated incorrect information for the Immigration Service when she applied for Swedish citizenship.

Therefore also decided Aregawis club Hammarby to convene an extraordinary board meeting this week to discuss the data.

But now comes a more serious scandal.

Löparstjärnan is stuck in a doping test and is suspended during the investigation. According Sportbladets data was the test, a urine test, in January this year and Athletics Association was informed of the positive test for a couple of weeks ago. According to Ake Andrén-Sandberg, a medical expert at the Swedish Sports Doping Commission, shows Ababa Aregawis A sample traces of the banned substance meldonium.

Secretary General Stefan Olsson talks about the feeling when the shock came.

” want more information “

– I was probably something like this: now get the hell enough. Somewhere, this is a gain of disappointment, despair, irritation, and that you become angry, he said.

What do you mean when you say that “get the hell enough is enough”?

– we still had three cases in a year and a half and I think we have worked hard and actively with these issues – yet it is not enough.

What do Abeba Aregawi yourself?

– I have not had contact herself, but she has accepted a temporary shutdown, but she wants the b-sample analyzed and that means she wants more information .

this is not the first time Ababa are in trouble, but Stefan Olsson is clear that this is absolutely the

worst.

– it has been more a matter of trust capital eroded but shows this to be true, it is completely driven into the ground.

Suspended pending the b-sample analysis

Abeba Aregawi comes from an injury hit last year season in which she changed coaches twice before she faced this season chose to return to the Dutch coach Bram Som. The plan was to race at home in the Globe in February and then run inhomus Championships in Portland later in March. But with just a button weeks to Globe Awards announced Aregawis management that she had to cancel because of an injury. Now there are many indications that the Olympic hope absence will be considerably longer than that. Would she be turned off, the union has taken the decision that it can double the shutdown of the national team. Stefan Olsson do not think Abeba Aregawi can make more national team appearances for the shutdown becomes reality.

– Right now, I have very hard to see it.

Is this the worst you experienced during your time as coach, and federal employee?

– Yes, I must say. It’s the toughest I’ve been through, says Stefan Olsson.