Adharanand Finn Photo: Adharanand Finn
New Zealand runner and two-time Olympian Zane Robertson has been banned from all sport for eight years.
The 33 year old, who has trained in Kenya since age 17, tested positive for performance enhancing drug Erythropoietin (EPO) last year, and then lied about it.
Fellow runner, author and journalist Adharanand Finn raced with Robertson in Kenya in 2011 and interviewed him last year for his podcast The Way of the Runner.
Adharanand Finn is author of Running with the Kenyans, The Way of the Runner and The Rise of the Ultra Runners and has written for The Guardian and The Observer.
Zane Robertson Photo: AFP / FILE
