Russia has June deadline for Olympics, says ARAF chief

Mwangi, the Chief Executive of AK, was accused by two athletes who failed drugs tests of seeking bribes to reduce their doping suspension.

Mwangi joined Athletics Kenya President Isaiah Kiplagat, vice president David Okeyo and former federation treasurer Joseph Kinyua in being suspended by the IAAF pending investigations by its ethics committee.

Kenya last week missed a deadline to prove to WADA that it was doing enough to combat doping and faces being declared a non-compliant nation, which could lead to a global ban.

The World Anti-Doping Agency said it was “most disturbed” by the claims.

Athletics Kenya (AK) officials on Tuesday showed journalists a letter from Mwangi that stated: “The allegations have caused me a lot of mental anguish”.

The president of Russia’s track and field federation says any athletes that want to keep Russians from competing at the Olympics should be “ashamed”. “Africa does not have the laboratory to make those substances to give to the athletes; the doping substances”.

The pair were slapped with four-year doping bans in 2015. They didn’t ban the United States from any competition; we took sanctions against the athletes who made the wrong decisions.

“We must support the effort that has already been made by the government of Kenya, by the sports authority of the country to help them reach the expectations of our requirements”.

“Mr Mwangi is provisionally suspended from any office or position in either Athletics Kenya or the IAAF which he presently holds and is precluded from assuming any new office or position in either organisation for a period of 180 days starting on 22 February 2016, pending investigation of a complaint made against him and information that the IAAF Ethics Board has seen”. IAAF President Sebastian Coe has said the sport would consider suspending Kenya if it is in breach of anti-doping rules.