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Bahrain’s track team will have to pause its successful strategy of naturalising athletes from Africa after accepting a package of sanctions related to doping. World Athletics said on Thursday that Bahrain had been restricted to a maximum of 10 athletes in the track and field events at the Paris Olympics \- which wasn’t announced at the time – and at next year’s world championships in Tokyo. Bahrain’s team in Paris included Kenya-born Winfred Yavi, who won gold in Paris in the women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase, and Nigeria-born sprinter Salwa Eid Naser, the silver medalist in the 400. Neither at…

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