“The relief I am feeling is hard to describe,” Peter Bol said yesterday after Athletics Australia lifted a provisional suspension placed on him in January. The Aussie 800m record holder came to national attention when he came 4th at the Tokyo Olympics, winning hearts with his backstory as a refugee from Sudan. In January, he revealed he’d failed an ‘out of competition’ doping test last year, testing positive for synthetic EPO. Bol denies he has ever used the substance and requested that a 2nd sample be analysed. Yesterday, he said he is free to return to training and competition, but it’s not over… The 2nd sample returned an atypical finding (ATF) for the substance, and Sport Integrity Australia said “an ATF is not the same as a negative test result”, and it will continue its investigation. Bol’s lawyer has strongly criticised officials’ handling of the case, saying the usual practice is for both samples to be tested before an athlete is publicly named.