Runner 'uses fake penis for drug test'

Runner 'uses fake penis for drug test'

''He'll appear before an anti-doping disciplinary panel.''

A runner allegedly used a fake penis to give a sample of uncontaminated urine during a drug test.

Italian Devis Licciardi is said to have use a prosthetic device called the Whizzinator to produce the sample for race officials following a 10km race in Italy.

The 27-year-old athlete - who runs for the Italian Air Force team - will now go up against the country's Olympic committee after the alleged offence was reported by a marshall.

The committee said: ''He'll appear before an anti-doping disciplinary panel.''


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