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Mexico's Star Race Walker Lupita González Hit With 4-Year Ban For Doping

González, 30, won a silver medal at the Rio Summer Olympics. With the threat of suspension hanging over her, she's been training in hopes that she can compete in next year's Tokyo Games.
María Guadalupe González, seen here winning the Women's 20 km race at the IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships last May, has been banned from the sport for four years.

An athletics tribunal has banned elite Mexican race walker María Guadalupe González from competing for four years. Officials allege that González, popularly known as Lupita, forged records to bolster her claim that she ate meat containing a metabolite of trenbolone, a powerful anabolic steroid.

González, 30, has won numerous titles, including at the

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