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Winning Through Cheating: Kenyan Athletes Who Have Violated Anti-Doping Rules In 2022

The respect Kenya commanded as a middle and long distance powerhouse is quickly fading as cases of athletes using performance enhancing substances is at an all time high. 

According to a report appearing on The Weekly Review, Kenya is “lucky to survive the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) sanction.”

Doping is being facilitated by coaches, agents, managers and rogue officials keen on the dollar at the expense of the athletes. Some of these athletes are at times not even aware of the nefarious designs of their handlers. They have been made to imbibe liquids, tablets or injected with performance substances. 

Other ways athletes use to dope is through massaging of the muscles and “a highly specialised scientific process that entails transfusing of oxygen-laden blood, known as blood doping”.

The publication goes on to state that the effects can be fatal as some of these athletes have collapsed and died mysteriously. Others have their reproductive health irreversibly damaged. 

Prohibited substances

Nandrolone tops the list of the most prevalent performance enhancing substance detected in Kenyan athletes standing at 35 per cent (49 of 138) of all (Adverse Analytical Findings (AAFs). 

Others are corticosteroids, prednisone, prednisolone and methylprednisolone follow at 13 per cent (18 out of 138) of all Kenyan AAFs. They are administered orally or via injection.

The third most prevalent prohibited substance accounting for 12 per cent is Erythropoietein (EPO). 

Via The Weekly Review

1.Ibrahim Makunga Wachira
2.Kenneth Kiprop Renju
3.Michael Kanyunga Njenga
4.Johnstone Kibet Maiyo
5.Lawrence Cherono
6.Mark Kangogo
7. Philemon Kacheran
8. Felix Kipchumba Korir
9. Emmanuel Saina
10.Joel Maina Mwangi
11.Matthew Kisorio
12.Justus Kimutai
13.Morris Munene Gachaga
14.Edward Kibet Kiprop
15.Paul KIpchumba Lonyangata
16.Kumari Taki
17.Marius Kipserem
18.Diana Chemtai Kipyokei
19.Eglay Nalianya
20.Lilian Kasait
21.Stella Barsosio
22.Purity Changwony
23.Betty Wilson Lempus
24.Vane Nyaboke
25.Tabitha Gichia Wambui
26.Joyce Chepkirui
27.Purity Jerono Talam
28.Teddy Otengo
29.Everylne Syombua
30.Phenus Kipleting
31.Gloria Kite
32.Daniel Wanjiru

 

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