Ohuruogu is allowed to compete at the World Championships under UK Athletics rules but banned from the Olympics by British Olympic Association regulations. She is to appeal against the BOA ban. She admitted the furore surrounding her win had tainted her achievement in becoming Great Britain's first female track world champion in 14 years.
"I had (enjoyed it) at first but it is very difficult when you have all this negativity thrown in your face after you have worked extremely hard for something. "I am just trying to block it out of my mind at the moment. "I understand that people have questions, but if the report is there and says there is no evidence of anything dubious, I don't understand why people are still asking me to explain myself." Asked if she had ever taken drugs, she said: "No, of course not. It's not something I would ever dream of doing. I believe my talent alone will get me to where I need to get to.
"If you deliberately take a substance in order to cheat you should be (banned for life)." Ohuruogu also explained in more detail the events which led to her missed third test and subsequent ban. "The system that we have, you have to put forward five slots per week of an hour each of where you are going to be. "So, basically for the third test that I missed I had a slot for a certain venue that I am always training at but there was a sports (event) at the track. "There was a last minute change of plan and we decided to go to another track and with the rushing around I didn't make that known to the anti-doping people. "So when they turned up to the original track obviously I wasn't there. "It wasn't as if I turned up, knew they were there and refused to take the test. "I didn't know until a week later that I had a missed test. It was completely random. You never know when they are going to turn up."
Source: BBC Sport
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