chepkemei hit by big ban kenya s athletics body has suspended twotime london marathon runnerup susan chepkemei from all competition until the end of the year athletics kenya ak issued the ban after chepkemei failed to turn up for a cross country training camp in embu we have banned her from all local and international competitions said ak chief isaiah kiplagat we shall communicate this decision to the iaaf and all meet directors all over the world the 29yearold finished second to paula radcliffe in the 2002 and 2003 london races and was also edged out in an epic new york marathon contest last year but the ban will prevent the twotime world halfmarathon silver medallist from challenging radcliffe at this year s london event in april global sports communications chepkemei s management company said she had wanted to run in the world cross country championships in march but ak maintained it was making an example of chepkemei as a warning to other kenyan athletes we are taking this action in order to salvage our pride said kiplagat we have been accused of having no teeth to bite with and that agents are ruling over us ka has also threatened threetime women s shortcourse champion edith masai with a similar ban if reports that she feigned injury to avoid running at the cross country world championships are true masai missed the national trials in early february but was included in the provisional team on the proviso that she ran in a regional competition she failed to run in the event citing a leg injury