It also highlights the limitations of WADA and its painfully-stretched resources – a #22m annual budget and staff of 70 simply can not police the entire world, which means compliance with global anti-doping rules is ultimately a matter of trust.
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“Following a circular vote of its Foundation Board members, the World Anti-Doping Agency wishes to announce that it has removed the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya from the list of signatories previously deemed non-compliant with the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code (the Code)”, the Wada statement said.
“The Ministry of Sport and the Brazilian Doping Control Authority strongly refute the accusations made by Mr Horta”, it said.
Brazil says it has been unable to carry out tests since WADA suspended its Rio de Janeiro laboratory in June.
Wada also lifted the provisional suspension slapped on Kenya’s anti-doping agency.
“The explanation came was unsatisfactory as they said due to change in guard in the ministry and the agency, it wasn’t done”.
Brazil’s leading athletes were not drug-tested for a month leading up to the Olympics – a decision that Wada calls “unacceptable”.
“It was unacceptable that it stopped. That was not a good move – the fact no testing was happening was a concern”.
The latest allegations come at a time when the whole world is reeling due to doping claims.
The majority of those declared ineligible were from three sports – athletics (67), rowing (22) and weightlifting (10).
“We sent a letter to the minister of sport and the executive director of the Brazilian national anti-doping agency, pressing our concerns and demanding to know why testing had been stopped”, Koehler told The Times.
Meanwhile in India, three doping cases emerged before the Games.
“The anti-doping agency’s primary objective was for many medals and all of them clean, (but some parties) just wanted many medals, whether clean or not”.
But a former senior official from Brazil’s anti-doping agency has told The Times newspaper that he left the organisation because the sports ministry was asking him and his colleagues to do fewer tests.
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Horta’s comments have been categorically rejected by the Brazilian sports ministry but WADA has confirmed that it is investigating the matter.
