Rugut to doping athletes: You can run but you can’t hide!
Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya Chief Executive Officer Japhter Rugut during a press conference in Nairobi on February 22, 2019. PHOTO | SILA KIPLAGAT | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Rugut warned that the spike in those failing doping test is bound to rise with more ABP cases coming up, but hastened that high profile cases will act as a deterrent
Rugut also singled out peer pressure and support from athletes’ support personnel, and even managements, as some of the contributing factors to this vice
Rugut said they have marked a milestone in their education and sensitisation drive where they have held 142 workshops with 11,513 people participating since 2016
The Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (Adak) has warned sportspeople contemplating circumventing anti-doping regulations that advanced scientific testing and analysis of blood and urine samples will blow their cover.
Adak chief executive officer Japhter Rugut says some athletes might dodge and escape after taking illegal performance enhancing substances, but the profiling process through the Athletes Blood Passport (ABP) will eventually smoke them out.
