In the film, Rotich appears to request a one-off payment to give athletes 12 hours’ advanced notice of a pending drugs test because he knew the official anti-doping testers.
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‘We can not tolerate such behaviour.
Chairman Keino said the committee had not facilitated Anzrah’s travel to Brazil, adding: “We don’t even know how he came here”.
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.
World athletics’ governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations, said it has asked the IOC, which is responsible for anti-doping during the Games, for a full report and will then make an assessment on what disciplinary action should follow for the coach and athlete.
“As soon as we realised this we went to the testing officials and presented the runner with his photo ID”, Soi added.
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.
Anzrah was not immediately available for comment.
Expelled Team Kenya sprint coach, John Anzrah.
Adams said the Kenyan team had probably been tested more than any other over those two years.
The source said “it was wrong for him to produce sample” and “signing samples as Ferguson Rotich”.
The incident may have been the unintended result of the runner, Ferguson Rotich, giving the official his accreditation card so he could have a free breakfast in the athletes village.
Rotich’s lawyer, Ham Lagat, said the evidence against his client ‘is not strong enough’.
“It is tenuous, it is whimsical evidence”, Lagat said.
Athletes aren’t supposed to be tipped off in advance of tests to ensure that they don’t try to avoid them or manipulate their samples to appear clean. Sports reporter Matthew Kenyon is in Rio.
At least 40 of the country’s track and field athletes have been banned since the 2012 Olympics.
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And its athletics federation has been flooded with corruption scandals linked to doping, tarnishing its reputation as a result.
