By AYUMBA AYODIMore by this AuthorInspector General of Police Hillary Mutyambai on Tuesday described beleaguered three-time World 1,500m champion Asbel Kiprop as a hero. Mutyambai met the troubled former 2008 Beijing Olympics 1,500m champion, who is a Chief Inspector, at the National Police Service headquarters, Jogoo House in Nairobi. “Kiprop is our hero, we must never forget him,” said Mutyambai in a post on the National Police Service Facebook page. In his defence, Kiprop continues to maintain his position that the alleged EPO in the sample of November 27, 2017 is either natural or the sample used to effect the test was not his sample, or otherwise was contaminated. Kiprop also alleged that the procedure used to test the alleged artificial EPO was flawed with the result of mistaking natural EPO as artificial EPO.

Source: Daily Nation April 30, 2019 15:33 UTC