adminNAIROBI. — Kenyan sports officials are optimistic the country will be granted more time to pass a robust anti-doping law and avoid a threatened Olympics ban.
A World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) deadline to tighten its anti-doping law and provide funding for a proposed anti-doping agency expired yesterday with lawmakers having failed to pass a bill criminalising sports doping.
The Bill is intended to save Kenyan athletes from an Olympics ban threatened by International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) president Sebastian Coe.
“We have submitted all our documents to WADA as required,” sports minister Hassan Wario said yesterday.
“Compliance required a raft of factors — about four key factors — with legalisation being a part of that,” he told the local Citizen TV channel.
Wario said Kenya had fulfilled its requirements and he did not expect it to be declared non-compliant when the WADA board meets in Montreal, Canada, on May 12. — AFP.
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