Barnaba Korir, the Executive committee member and Chairman of Youth Development Programme at Athletics Kenya described the allegations as “unfair to Kenya”. Previously, blood samples taken from Kenyan athletes had to be flown to South Africa or Europe to be tested at an approved lab. Sports CS Amina said Kenya will not relent in the fight against doping and would pursue legal avenues to eliminate falsehoods that threaten to derail the war against drug cheats. And so, repeated falsehoods cannot be a weapon against drug cheats,” CS Amina said. What cannot be gainsaid is the fact that since 2012, cases of convicted drug cheats in Kenyan athletics have spiked to worrying levels, placing the country on World Athletics doping watch list since 2017 and therefore, the fight to eradicate the vice is far from being won.

Source: Standard Digital May 02, 2021 22:07 UTC