IOC Scholarship Refugee Athlete Suspended for Doping Ahead of Paris Olympics

Fouad Idbafdil, originally from Morocco, tests positive for banned hormone EPO, jeopardizing his participation in the 2024 Summer Games.

Refugee athlete Fouad Idbafdil, who is on an IOC scholarship for the Paris Olympics, has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for the banned blood-boosting hormone EPO.
The 35-year-old runner is provisionally banned from competing while the case is prosecuted, just eight months ahead of the 2024 Summer Games in France.
Idbafdil was among more than 50 refugee athletes getting financial help in their host countries to prepare for Paris.
Idbafdil is originally from Morocco and obtained refugee status in France after initially moving to Sweden.
He competed at two world championships this year: the cross-country worlds in February in Australia in the mixed team relay, and in the 3,000 meters steeplechase at the track worlds in August in Budapest, Hungary.