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KENYA NI YA PILI DUNIANI KWA UDANGANYIFU KATIKA OLIMPIKI
Ushindi wao hau sisimui, hauheshimiki na wala kuaminika tena, maana wanajulikana kwa udanganyifu.
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Aug 5th 2021
ALONGSIDE THE visible sporting contest in Tokyo sits a hidden, pharmacological one. Away from the TV cameras, in laboratories and huts and cubicles, anti-doping officials scour samples from the 11,482 athletes at the games, looking for evidence of any one of the hundreds of banned performance-enhancing drugs. Even before the games, athletes will have been visited by officials conducting surprise out-of-competition tests.
No one knows how many athletes are using chemical enhancement, although most experts agree it is widespread. Estimates vary from sport to sport, and range from 10% to 40%. But track-and-field athletics—one of the Olympics's centrepiece events—has a particularly chequered past. Of the 12 finalists in the women’s 1,500 metres at the 2012 Olympics, four were subsequently suspended for doping. In 2013 the entire board of Jamaica’s anti-doping agency resigned after it was revealed it had conducted only a single out-of-competition test ahead of the London games. Last year Lamine Diack, a former head of the sport’s governing body, was sent to prison for corruption and covering up drug-test results. Just before the Tokyo games Shelby Houlihan, an American runner and medal prospect, was barred from the contest after failing a drugs test.
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Ushindi wao hau sisimui, hauheshimiki na wala kuaminika tena, maana wanajulikana kwa udanganyifu.
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Russia and Kenya take the podium in the athletics doping contest
The shadow of pharmaceutical cheating still blights the Olympic movement
Aug 5th 2021
ALONGSIDE THE visible sporting contest in Tokyo sits a hidden, pharmacological one. Away from the TV cameras, in laboratories and huts and cubicles, anti-doping officials scour samples from the 11,482 athletes at the games, looking for evidence of any one of the hundreds of banned performance-enhancing drugs. Even before the games, athletes will have been visited by officials conducting surprise out-of-competition tests.
No one knows how many athletes are using chemical enhancement, although most experts agree it is widespread. Estimates vary from sport to sport, and range from 10% to 40%. But track-and-field athletics—one of the Olympics's centrepiece events—has a particularly chequered past. Of the 12 finalists in the women’s 1,500 metres at the 2012 Olympics, four were subsequently suspended for doping. In 2013 the entire board of Jamaica’s anti-doping agency resigned after it was revealed it had conducted only a single out-of-competition test ahead of the London games. Last year Lamine Diack, a former head of the sport’s governing body, was sent to prison for corruption and covering up drug-test results. Just before the Tokyo games Shelby Houlihan, an American runner and medal prospect, was barred from the contest after failing a drugs test.
Russia and Kenya take the podium in the athletics doping contest
The shadow of pharmaceutical cheating still blights the Olympic movement
