The country had twice failed to meet Wada’s requests for anti-doping mechanisms to be put in place, with athletes facing special testing before the Games. Anzrah was then approached by a doping control officer looking for Rotich to submit a urine sample.
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The identity of the Olympian that Anzrah was posing as has not been released and it is not known if any punishment will be handed down to the athlete.
On Sunday, track and field manager Michael Rotich was sent packing by Kenyan officials after he was caught on film trying to squeeze £10,000 ($12,956.30) from athletes’ representatives in exchange for a friendly advance warning if they were going to be tested.
Kenya on Thursday withdrew a second athletics coach from the Rio Olympics in five days over a doping cheat bid.
Rio de Janeiro (dpa) – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has set up a disciplinary commission to look into a suspected anti-doping rules violation in which a Kenyan coach is said to have attempted to submit a urine sample on behalf of an athlete at the Rio Olympics.
Rotich claimed he gave Anzrah his accreditation so that the coach could eat breakfast for free at the athletes village on Wednesday morning, said Rotich’s agent, Marc Corstjens. The IAAF will provide the International Olympic Committee with the complete report on the incident and will also investigate to issue disciplinary actions against both Anzrah and Rotich.
The 26-year-old Rotich finished fourth in last year’s world championships in Beijing and is ranked ninth in the world this season. He is listed to compete in the heats of the men’s 800 on Friday alongside teammate David Rudisha, the Olympic champion and world-record holder.
At the opening ceremony of Rio Games, Keino was honored with the first-ever Olympics Laurel for his work in promoting sport and education for the poor in Kenya.
Rotich reportedly said he could protect athletes from doping controls because he is a senior track federation official in the region and knew when the official testers would be targeting athletes, according to the newspaper.
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Rotich denied the accusations but was arrested on his return to Nairobi, where a judge ordered the police to hold him for four weeks during the doping probe.
