On top of that, Anzrah is the second Kenyan official to be sent home from the Rio Games due to r drug allegations and ongoing doping concerns which have dogged Kenya for much of the past year after several runners tested positive for performance enhancing drugs. “We can not tolerate such behaviour”, Kip Keino, chairman of the National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOCK), said in a telephone interview from Rio.
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John Anzrah, 61, “presented himself” as 800m medal hope Ferguson Rotich and “even signed the documents” for the doping test. We can not tolerate such behavior.
“We can not tolerate such behaviour”.
It was not clear which athlete Anzrah was pretending to be.
Citizen TV in Kenya claimed Anzrah may have been using the false accreditation in order to partake in free meals from the Olympic village.
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.
So far Anzrah has not responded to requests for a comment.
‘He was picked and taken to the doping control station purportedly as Ferguson Rotich and subjected to produce the sample and he signed.
The investigation into Rotich, the official who was in charge of Kenya’s star-studded Olympic track team, would take time and involve investigators traveling to a number of towns in the west of the country to contact possible witnesses and record statements, prosecutor Duncan Ondimu said on Tuesday.
‘It is tenuous, it is whimsical evidence, ‘ Lagat said. ‘It is about a video, it is about a newspaper, it could be a gutter press, ‘ he added.
He is accused of asking for money from journalists, who went undercover as representatives of athletes, to let them know when they would be tested.
Athletes are not supposed to be warned in advance of such tests as that might help drug cheats to avoid detection.
WADA this month removed Kenya from its list of nations deemed “non-compliant” with its doping code.
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And its athletics federation has been flooded with corruption scandals linked to doping, tarnishing its reputation as a result.
