John Anzrah, a Kenyan athletics coach, was sent home from Rio after he posed as an athlete and gave a urine sample in a doping test, according to a leading official from the country.
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And last weekend, an explosive Sunday Times investigation alleged that Major Michael Rotich, the track and field team’s manager, offered a £10,000 bribe to his athletes to provide advance warning of drugs tests.
Anzrah, a former Kenyan sprinter and now coach, was kicked out by team officials because of “the crime he has committed against Team Kenya”, Arap Soi said.
Kip Keino, chairman of the National Olympic Committee of Kenya, told BBC: “We can not tolerate such behaviour”, before adding: “We don’t even know how he came here”.
Rotich’s lawyer told a Nairobi court on Wednesday that the athletics manager denies any wrongdoing.
But the doping officials, ever-vigilant defenders of a PED-free sport, had a photo of the unnamed athlete Anzah was impersonating, and quickly realized they were face to face with a gentleman that probably yells at the occasional cloud.
‘We can not tolerate such behaviour. Sports reporter Matthew Kenyon is in Rio. Rotich has also been sent home from Rio.
Ferguson Rotich finished fourth in the 800 meters at the world championships in Beijing a year ago.
The Olympic team of track and field athletes of Kenya remained without a coach.
“The IOC has immediately created a disciplinary commission to look into the matter with regard to the coach and the athlete concerned”. He finished fourth at last summer’s World Championships in Beijing and owns a personal best of 1:42.84 from the 2014 Monaco Diamond League Meet.
No action has yet been taken against Ferguson Rotich, who is one of the favourites in the 800m race, which begins on Friday with the heats.
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Kenya’s anti-doping program has been under scrutiny ahead of the Rio Games, with the World Anti-Doping Agency removing the country from its “non-compliant” list on the opening day of the Olympics.
