Overview

• France's Jimmy Gressier won the men's 10,000 meters in Tokyo and credited the Athletics Integrity Unit for helping level the field after outsprinting Ethiopia's Yomif Kejelcha, for whom no doping indicators have been reported.
• AIU director general David Howman said the unit conducted 1,209 tests on 145 athletes from high-risk countries in the lead-up to the championships.
• Howman said the AIU aims to remove those intentionally defrauding others from podiums, prize money, sponsorships and moments of success.
• World Athletics president Sebastian Coe praised the AIU as a gold-standard organization that has been central to restoring the sport's reputation and trust.
• Following WADA's recent non-compliant ruling for Kenya, AIU chief Brett Clothier described the country's recent past as a "Wild West," citing out-of-competition tests rising from about 400 to 4,000 annually and the registered testing pool expanding from 30 to 300.