Garrett Scantling banned for three years for doping offences. Scantling’s three-year period of ineligibility started on June 27 2022, the date he committed a tampering violation.
It has been a long time since a Swiss man exceeded 8000 points for decathlon. It was in 2003, to be exact, when Rolf Schläfli achieved 8019 in Götzis and became only the 5th man ever over 8000.
Sander Aae Skotheim was a silver medalist at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul. At the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships, in Espoo, Finland, he won the silver medal in the decathlon.