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More
than 30 Kenyan athletes have been suspended and five more banned since 2012
after testing positive for banned performance-enhancing drugs ©Kirill
Kudryavtsev (AFP)
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Kenya, under scrutiny
amid allegations of widespread doping in world athletics, on Saturday announced
the immediate establishment of an anti-doping agency. Coming just a day after
the IAAF, world athletics' governing body, banned Russia over
"state-sponsored" doping, the Kenyan government released details of
the new initiative with the aim of assuaging concerns over the east African
country's internal anti-doping policy.
A
damning report by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) last week outlined
evidence of systematic cheating with the consent of the government in Moscow,
noting that drug tests for athletes were conducted at a Russian lab that
totally lacked credibility.
