5,000m runner gets 12-month suspended ban and £5,000 fineButchart said he ‘perhaps glorified the situation for the podcast’Britain’s 5,000 metres runner Andrew Butchart will compete in the Tokyo Olympics after
UK Athletics handed him a suspended ban for saying he had changed the date on a Covid-19 test result to return to
Britain from an event before clarifying his remarks.
In a now-deleted episode of The Sunday Plodcast, Butchart had said there was a delay in getting his PCR test result before his flight home from the
United States and he had changed the date on an old test as he prepared for check-in.