“We want to run clean and ensure a clean running environment for our athletes as this is what Kenyans are well known for”, he said.
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It comes after fellow coach Michael Rotich was also expelled from the Games for his involvement in an alleged doping bribery case, meaning two officials within the Kenyan athletics team have been ordered to return home before the event has even got underway.
Also Friday, a Kenyan 800-meter runner caught up in a separate doping scandal at the Olympics told The Associated Press he has “explained everything” after a coach was in possession of his accreditation and allegedly posed as the athlete at a doping test.
Ruto said the government will not allow a few individuals who want to use short cuts, to ruin Kenya’s hard-earned reputation in athletics.
“If I had an accreditation card, this would not have occurred”. We were only being given ordinary one-day passes.
“On Wednesday, Ferguson Rotich sympathised with me and gave me his badge to enable me have some breakfast, and as soon as I was through with the meal, three men who turned out to be doping control officers approached me that I accompany them since they had earmarked Rotich for an out-of-competition dope test”, Anzra said.
Strangely, Kip Keino, chairman of the National Olympic Committee of Kenya, claimed he did not even know that Anzrah had joined the Kenyan delegation for the Rio games, and that Kenya had not paid for his trip.
“For the record, World Anti Doping Agency, IOC and IAAF know we have complied in as far as matters on doping are concerned”.
More than 40 Kenyan athletes have failed doping tests since 2011, and Kenyan athletes have been heavily tested in the run-up to the Rio Games. They put me in a room, asked for my sample and I refused to give it to them trying to explain to them I wasn’t Rotich.
“I was called by the Nock officials and told to look for a Visa so that I could travel to Rio and that when we got there they would furnish us with the accreditation which they didn’t. I was then released”.
The statement said the chaperones informed the man he had to go to a doping control which he did and signed the doping control form.
Mark Adams, the IOC Director of Communications, said investigations into the incident were ongoing.
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“If I had not bought time for Rotich, he would have probably been banned for refusing to take the urine test”, the retired former national sprint champion underscored.
