{UAH} Kenya Doping Scandal
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WBK/P'Ojim/Moses Nekyon/Gwokto,
Do you think Kenya will manage to deal with the doping threat? I
highly doubt it, given the get-rich-quick mentality that is now so
pervasive in Uganda, and I guess in kenya as well. The survival
instinct and craze to get rich quick by any means surely means Kenya
will never be able to control doping, let alone monitor it. I listened
to an interview by the great Gabriel Haile Sellassie, the marathon
king, who said many athletes now don't see any worth in the hard graft
of training if they can pay a quack doctor $200 to win a race where he
will earn $200,000. It is easier to preach the value of clean sport,
but in Africa where poverty is so pervasive and moral standards at
such a low level, I think it will be near impossible to convince most
athletes to train and work hard when they can achieve the same
results with doping.
George Okello
BBC Sport Athletics doping: Kenya misses Wada deadline
BBC Sport - 15 hours agoKenya misses a deadline to prove to the World
Anti-Doping Agency it is tackling
cheating in athletics.Kenya athletes say they were asked to pay $24000
in doping scandal
USA TODAY - 2 days agoKenyan athletics rocked by new scandal
Independent Online - 1 day ago
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Do you think Kenya will manage to deal with the doping threat? I
highly doubt it, given the get-rich-quick mentality that is now so
pervasive in Uganda, and I guess in kenya as well. The survival
instinct and craze to get rich quick by any means surely means Kenya
will never be able to control doping, let alone monitor it. I listened
to an interview by the great Gabriel Haile Sellassie, the marathon
king, who said many athletes now don't see any worth in the hard graft
of training if they can pay a quack doctor $200 to win a race where he
will earn $200,000. It is easier to preach the value of clean sport,
but in Africa where poverty is so pervasive and moral standards at
such a low level, I think it will be near impossible to convince most
athletes to train and work hard when they can achieve the same
results with doping.
George Okello
BBC Sport Athletics doping: Kenya misses Wada deadline
BBC Sport - 15 hours agoKenya misses a deadline to prove to the World
Anti-Doping Agency it is tackling
cheating in athletics.Kenya athletes say they were asked to pay $24000
in doping scandal
USA TODAY - 2 days agoKenyan athletics rocked by new scandal
Independent Online - 1 day ago
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