There is “no suggestion” that there has been any state-sponsored drug cheating in Kenyan athletics despite a series of high-profile doping scandals, says World Athletics president Lord Coe.
Kenya avoided joining Russia in being banned from international competition in November after other nations voiced their concern to the sport’s global governing body.
Russia has received several bans after a 2016 report found evidence of a state-sponsored doping programme across many sports - but when it comes to athletics, 40% of those currently serving bans are Kenyan.
“We took a different approach to Kenya from the approach we took with Russia because they were two different cases,” Coe told a joint media conference in Nairobi where he praised the work being done by the Kenyan government.
“The case against Russia was about cover ups that were planned at the state authority level, but there is no suggestion that this is the case in Kenya. In fact, quite the reverse. (BBC Sport)