The [link id=”340″ tax=”post_tag” text=”World Anti-Doping Agency”] (WADA) will help create a new anti-doping body in Kenya after a report concluded the East African country has no effective programme to fight drug cheating.
WADA’s announcement on a new Kenyan national anti-doping organisation followed a meeting with Kenyan government officials in Cape Town, [link id=”217″ tax=”category” text=”South Africa” target=”_blank”], on Wednesday.
According to WADA’s director general David Howman, who called the meeting ‘constructive’, the national anti-doping agencies from Norway and China will assist [link id=”81″ tax=”category” text=”Kenya” target=”_blank”] to set up the organisation.
[link id=”81″ tax=”category” text=”Kenya”] has been under close scrutiny since German broadcaster ARD alleged in 2012 that doping was common among the country’s famous distance runners.
Kenya has seen a spike in positive tests in recent years, with 18 athletes failing drugs tests from January 2012 to December 2013, according to the doping report. That’s a rate of nearly one a month.
[link id=”237″ tax=”post_tag” text=”WADA “]pushed Kenya to investigate the ARD allegations and the long-awaited report was made public last week.
