"The track and field team in Kenya is the most tested track and field team in the last two years," Adams said, adding they had undergone 848 tests, with about half of them out-of-competition. Kenya has produced some of the finest middle and long-distance runners in the past decades and topped the medals table at last year's world athletics championships. The World Anti-Doping Agency in May put Kenya on its non-compliant list as an anti-doping law passed by the Kenyan parliament was not in line with WADA's own code. "The national Olympic committee [of Kenya] has asked that he leaves as his presence is distracting the team," IOC spokesman Mark Adams said. The Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya said it would look into the report, while the Kenyan sports minister questioned why allegations stemming from a secret recording earlier this year were published after the Olympics began.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 07, 2016 22:07 UTC