Rio Olympics hit by new doping scandal over bribery allegations

The Sunday Times newspaper and German television channel ARD filmed Rotich demanding 10,000 pounds ($13,000/11,800 euros) for agreeing to give a warning when doping tests would be carried out.

Michael Rotich said that he would try to work out the easiest way the purported coach’s athletes could avoid being tested.

“The reason we send him home isn’t on disciplinary grounds, but to spare integrity”, Team Kenya’s Chief of Mission Stephen Soi said.

Rotich told the Sunday Times that he made the comments simply in an attempt to establish the identity of the people he was speaking to and to protect athletes.

“The immediate action we are taking is to call the team manager back so we can investigate further his role in this”, Bosire is quoted as saying.

“They are very serious allegations”.

Seppelt added that AK was considering handing the case over to the police. That move was made Thursday, after WADA deemed that anti-doping legislation introduced in Kenya’s parliament sufficiently meets worldwide standards. The company said Rotich was not one of their business contacts. It read: “You know what?”

“Based on the evidence collected thus far, there is reason to believe that the two publications may have coerced unscrupulous individuals into forging documents and falsifying information on doping among Kenyan and global athletes”, said Wario.

“I mean some of those compassionate ones like you had a sick child and you… slept in the hospital or something”, said Rotich.

Kenya’s government is promising to show “no mercy” looking into the allegations, which come just three days after Kenya was declared compliant with the World Anti-doping Agency code, following a non-compliant verdict in May.

Kenya has produced some of the finest middle and long-distance runners in the past decades and topped the medals table at last year’s world athletics championships.