Re: dope
ebandit said:
More Strides than Rides said:
Athletics Kenya names 5 sanctions, including two-time world XC champ Emily Chebet.
beeb website report that 43 kenyan athletes have been banned in last 3 years..........
40 of whom failed tests...............does anyone know if russian style sanctions will now
be heading kenya's way............?
Mark L
Remember that there was no Kenyan anti-doping lab. Laws and funding have only recently been passed, and WADA has requested information regarding its progress:
WADA @wada_ama Nov 18
1/2...WADA has requested Kenya to answers questions relating to its anti-doping program. Await those answers, and if unsatisfactory, then...
WADA @wada_ama Nov 18
2/3...it could me a matter for Compliance Review Committee. WADA is encouraged by media reports that Kenyan cabinet has now approved rules..
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WADA @wada_ama Nov 18
3/3...and approved laws and that it will commit funding to Kenyan anti-doping program.
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Part two of the WADA IC report is likely to be finished in December and released after the holidays in January. Part two focuses on corruption.
Russian-esque sanctions aren't likely. First off, I don't think Athletics Kenya is competent enough to organize systematic doping. They can hardly organize national team training camps, and national and international qualifying competitions without doing something stupid, and those are things far from the shadows.
The organized (not systematic) doping is private, from a number of sources. Money/organized doping not only comes to Kenya from other countries, but also to Kenyans in other countries. No ties to the federation.
Bribery and corruption was revealed by the ARD documentary, and will be shared in the IC report, but it would have to be something special to implicate the federation, instead of individual figure heads.
Further, they didn't/don't have a WADA lab from which to lose accreditation.