Two kenyan landsholdsløbere is taken in the act of getting injected epo into the body, just a few days before the WORLD championships in athletics begins in Doha.
It told the German television station ZDF on Sunday evening in its ‘Sportreportage am Sonntag’.
the Names of the two athletes is not apparent, but the ZDF believe to know that there is talk about two of greece’s most talented runners, a woman and a man – and thus medaljekandidater at the upcoming WORLD cup.
It is the tv station itself, which has been in Kenya and made the hidden recording at a local pharmacy. Here, they both get sprayed substance, which reportedly is it illegal epo into your blood stream.
A doctor, who wishes to remain anonymous, told ZDF:
– No dope, just before the race or a major competition, here uses the epo in training. From the current national team, I had only eight runners, he says.
The national atletikforbunds spokesman Barnabas Korir is trying to explain the situation:
– We ensure that our team follows the rules. With this team, the focus has been even more intensively, there have been held several seminars, and we have tested several times. The practitioners know the consequences: if you Take doping, smoking one of the team, and the bears never Kenya’s national colors again, ” says Korir.
ZDF adds, however, a level more to the story.
For one document, the national atletikforbund cooperate with antidopingagenturet in Kenya, ADAK.
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So is ZDF inside a document that confirms that the two organisations work together to keep the positive tests hidden.
– They hide the results from the different athletes, so an athlete can not be ruled out. Kenya’s atletikforbund and ADAK, work together and earn money on it. The athletes and their managers should pay for it, says he.
At the WORLD cup two years ago won the Elijah Manangoi (in the middle) gold in the 1500-metre in front of the portrait by Timothy Cheruiyot (right). To the left is Asbel Kiprop, who was nine in the finals. Photo: Matt Dunham/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
In the document, as ZDF is come into possession of, reads: ‘Both the athlete’s A – and B-sample is positive. Let us meet as soon as possible and discuss this’.
another document, one is in the possession of, explains that ‘the federation has the ability to ensure a suspended athlete the freedom, and we are cooperating with the relevant authorities’.
the Tv station has, of course, given the documentation on to the IAAF, the international atletikforbund, and here is the boss from the federation of independent antidopingenhed, AIU, Brett Clothier, dismayed.
– This is very serious allegations, and we are not so naive to think that such problems and corruption do not exist in Kenya. We are always open for tips and trying to investigate these allegations, he says.
the TV clip from the ZDF
the TV clip from the ZDF
Clothier recalls that it may eventually lead to a complete suspension of Kenya in atletiksammenhæng. The reaction comes following a period in which Kenya is one of five countries with which you have had during the so-called ‘intense’ monitoring.
– There are very strict rules and regulations from our side, as they must comply with. If you do not comply with these rules, world federation at the end with his executive power to completely suspend the country, he says.
At the last WORLD cup (in 2017) won the Kenya five gold medals, two silver and four bronze medals. Only the US fared better. In 2015 topped the Kenya table. Kenya has been in the top 3 at the past six WORLD championships.
WORLD championships in athletics run 27. september to 6. October.
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