Kenyan doping: Why positive tests are the start of the solution
found 138 Kenyan athletes had tested positive for prohibited substances between 2004 and 2018, but a lowly 14% of those were caught in an out-of-competition test.Gunter Younger, the Wada report's lead author and director of intelligence and investigations, said the financial attractions for doping are paramount.
Indeed, when investigating the doping case of middle-distance runner Eglay Nalyanya this year, the AIU uncovered a "pattern of behaviour" in the forged documents that formed part of her fraudulent defence and those used by fellow Kenyan athlete Betty Lempus. Rio Olympics marathon champion Sumgong produced similarly altered medical records following an EPO positive, and when Kipsang committed four whereabouts failures in 2018 and 2019, he provided false witness testimony and used a fake photograph of an overturned lorry to try to justify a missed test.
"If a good runner emerges they have dollar signs flashing all around them," he says. "Exploiters - whether it's medical professionals, pharmacists, fixers, whoever - will offer them drugs. As well as road-race organisers and athlete representatives, shoe companies Asics, Adidas and Nike all contributed to the creation of the Road Running Integrity Programme in 2020, which pledged an extra $3m to fund out-of-competition testing of the leading 300 long-distance athletes regularly taking part in Gold Label races.
That is all about to change. In late 2022, the Kenyan government pledged to increase funding for anti-doping by $5m a year for the next five years. But while the Russian state-sponsored systematic doping regime was met with the 'stick', some count Kenya fortunate to be offered a 'carrot' and the chance to stay at the sport's top table.
The AIU is going further, helping to guide how the Kenyan government's newly pledged money should be spent with a senior AIU official moving on secondment to Adak for two years.
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