“We can not tolerate such behaviour”, said Kip Keino, chairman of Kenya’s National Olympic Committee, in a statement, per The Telegraph.
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For some reason, when drug testers came looking for Rotich, Anzrah willingly gave a urine sample and even signed off on the paperwork.
He said: “We have sent Anzrah back home”.
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.
The concerns over Kenya’s doping problem were so large that at one point the country’s participation at the Olympics was under threat.
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.
A sprint coach in the Kenyan track and field team for the Rio 2016 Olympics has been expelled from the Summer Games in the second doping scandal to rock the decorated athletes on the eve of action.
The former 61-year-old Olympic runner provided a urine sample under the name of Kenyan runner Ferguson Rotich.
The International Olympic Commitee set up a disciplinary commission to look into the incident.
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.
At least 40 Kenyan track and field athletes failed doping tests and were banned since the 2012 Olympics in London.
Retired sprinter John Anzrah was caught out by doping control officers, who spotted a mismatch between his face and the badge of the athlete he was attempting to impersonate.
Rotich is due to compete in the heats of the 800 metres on Friday.
‘When the anti doping officials met him, they assumed he was the athlete and that he was lined up for testing, ‘ said the Athletics Kenya source.
Mr Anzrah was not immediately available for comment. Kenya’s sports minister is also in Brazil with the team.
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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.
