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Kenya's
anti-doping agency promised allegations into a report their athletics manager
Michael Rotich sought a doping bribe would be fully investigated ©Franck Fife
(AFP)
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Kenya's anti-doping
agency (ADAK) promised Sunday allegations into a report their athletics manager
Michael Rotich sought a doping bribe would be fully investigated.
AFP
report continues:
The
Sunday Times newspaper and German television channel ARD filmed Rotich
allegedly demanding 10,000 pounds (US$13,000, €11,800) for agreeing to give a
warning when doping tests would be carried out.
"Naturally
we will launch investigations to find out the truth about the matter,"
Adak President Japhter Rugut told AFP. But he expressed concern at the timing
of the publication of the report after filming was carried out in January.
"And
we are concerned why it has taken such a long time to reveal the information.
It sounds a bit malicious that such information should come when the Kenya team
is in Rio for the Olympics," he lamented.
ARD
journalist Hajo Seppelt tweeted an Athletics Kenya statement saying Rotich had
been recalled "so we can investigate further his role in this."
"These
are very serious allegations and we cannot have someone of that character
managing our team."
The
International Olympics Committee later said that Rotich had been recalled.
This
had been denied however by Athletics Kenya spokesman Evans Bosire.
In
the media interview Rotich explained to journalists posing as a coach and agent
how their athletes could avoid doping controls.
He
is also alleged to have promised to alert them 12 hours before a dope test in
return for cash.
Several Kenyan athletes have failed dope tests in recent months. The government only this week passed anti-doping legislation so that the World Anti-Doping Agency could take Kenya off its non-compliant list.
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