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Kenya handed extension to comply with anti-doping code before Olympics
7:24 CAT | 07 Apr 2016
Reuters / Kenya has been handed a one-month extension to comply with the World Anti-Doping Agency code.
Kenya has been handed a one-month extension to comply with the World Anti-Doping Agency code and thereby avoid future sanctions.
A source at the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya said: “We have been given a one-month extension by Wada … we are proceeding to Mombasa to consult with the Parliamentary Committee on Labour and Sports so that when the new anti-doping bill comes for a second reading we will be on the same page … We have no doubt things will be fine.”
The bill is a key requirement for the east African nation, famed for its distance runners but tarnished by around 40 doping cases in recent years, to be declared compliant with the Wada code before the Rio Olympics in August.
Kenya was given a deadline to enact the law or be declared non-compliant, which brings Wada sanctions, but parliament went into recess earlier this month and the bill could not become law before time ran out on 5 April.
The IAAF said last month it was highly unlikely Kenya would be suspended from the Olympics, with a decision on Kenya’s case due to be reached at a board meeting on 12 May.
Kenya’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta, said on Tuesday that the bill could not be fast-tracked to beat the deadline but he was certain his nation’s athletes would be participating at the Olympics.
“The country is committed. I’m confident Kenya will participate at the Olympics and win more gold.”
Source: Reuters
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