RIO: Kenya Coach expelled from Games after posing as an athlete for doping test

RIO: Kenya Coach expelled from Games after posing as an athlete for doping test

A Kenya athletics team coach has been sent home from the Rio Olympics after he posed as an athlete and gave a urine sample in a doping test.

Retired sprinter John Anzrah was caught out by doping control officers, who spotted a mismatch between his face and the badge of the athlete he was attempting to impersonate.

Kip Keino, a Kenyan running great and chairman of the National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOCK), then announced the decision to send him home.

He said: "We have sent Anzrah back home. He presented himself as an athlete, gave the urine sample and even signed the documents. We cannot tolerate such behaviour."

We don't even know how he came here because we (NOCK) did not facilitate his travel here."

It was not clear which athlete Anzrah was pretending to be.

But one senior source at Kenya's running federation, Athletics Kenya (AK), said he had spoken to the concerned athlete who claims Anzrah used his accreditation purely to obtain free meals from athletes' village.

"When the anti doping officials met him, they assumed he was the athlete and that he was lined up for testing," the Athletics Kenya source told Reuters.

"The coach, for fear of being exposed or discovered, did not explain to the anti-doping guy that he is actually not the athlete. Hence he played along and went for the test," added the AK source.

Last week, Kenya sent their track and field manager Michael Rotich home from the Games following allegations that he requested money to let undercover journalists, posing as athlete representatives, know when drugs testers would come calling. Rotich has denied the accusations.

propaganda itauza siku zote!!!! you just peddling lies. this guy due to team mismanagement by some buffoon in the kenya olympics organization was denied a pass to the village, and hes a coach. one of the athletes gave him his pass to use to gain entry. Then the same athlete got selected for urine sampling. the old fellow fricked out as he tried to argue he was not the athlete.
wewe ni bureeee kabisa na your lies!!!!!
Betrayal in Rio: How mismanagement has left our heroes fuming
In Summary
  • Morale at the Team Kenya camp in the Brazilian city is at its lowest after weeks of problems including chaotic travel arrangements, inadequate training kit, questionable allocation of slots in the Olympic Village and doping-related bribery allegations against a top official.
  • Coach John Anzrah was one of those not given an accreditation badge while numerous joyriders were granted passes.
  • Mr Anzrah opened up on the deplorable conditions some in the Kenyan delegation are going through in Rio, putting the blame on the National Olympics Committee of Kenya.
  • Mr Anzrah, who said that he met his athletes only twice since he arrived in Rio, hinted that his accreditation may have been taken up by joyriders.
  • Barnaba Korir, Athletics Kenya executive committee member, and a member of the coaches’ selecting panel accused Nock of throwing Mr Anzrah under the bus.
  • Over the years, rogue Nock officials have been stealing the kit and selling to brokers.
A veteran coach expelled from the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro for impersonating an athlete has exposed the shameful depths of mismanagement that has seen the Kenyan team hurtle from one crisis to another.

This emerged as the Sunday Nation on Saturday learnt that morale at the Team Kenya camp in the Brazilian city is at its lowest after weeks of problems including chaotic travel arrangements, inadequate training kit, questionable allocation of slots in the Olympic Village and doping-related bribery allegations against a top official.

Sprints coach John Anzrah, a former Kenya and Africa athletics champion, who arrived at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Friday night, was expelled after he reportedly used the accreditation card belonging to 800 metres runner Ferguson Rotich to access the Olympics Village when he was picked for random doping testing.

Anzrah, 61, was one of those not given an accreditation badge while numerous joyriders were granted passes. The list of those accredited has not been made public, fuelling speculation.

Speaking to the Sunday Nation at the airport, Mr Anzrah opened up on the deplorable conditions some in the Kenyan delegation are going through in Rio, putting the blame squarely on the National Olympics Committee of Kenya (NOCK).

“We left for Brazil last Sunday and arrived on the same day. When we went to the athlete’s village, five of us — including Catherine Ndereba and Joseph Mosonik (both part of the coaching staff) — found out that we had no accreditation,” he said. This is contrary to statements attributed to Nock chairman Kipchoge Keino and chef de mission Stephen Soi that he was not part of the delegation.

He said this meant they had no access to the athletes’ village until late Wednesday evening when the women’s rugby team was supposed to return to Kenya.

“All this time we were staying in someone’s house and cooking our own food. I had to share a room designed for small children with Mosonik while Ndereba, who is the assistant team manager, slept in the adjacent room. It was a rented house,” he said.

source: nation
 
A Kenya athletics team coach has been sent home from the Rio Olympics after he posed as an athlete and gave a urine sample in a doping test.

Retired sprinter John Anzrah was caught out by doping control officers, who spotted a mismatch between his face and the badge of the athlete he was attempting to impersonate.

Kip Keino, a Kenyan running great and chairman of the National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOCK), then announced the decision to send him home.

He said: "We have sent Anzrah back home. He presented himself as an athlete, gave the urine sample and even signed the documents. We cannot tolerate such behaviour."

We don't even know how he came here because we (NOCK) did not facilitate his travel here."

It was not clear which athlete Anzrah was pretending to be.

But one senior source at Kenya's running federation, Athletics Kenya (AK), said he had spoken to the concerned athlete who claims Anzrah used his accreditation purely to obtain free meals from athletes' village.

"When the anti doping officials met him, they assumed he was the athlete and that he was lined up for testing," the Athletics Kenya source told Reuters.

"The coach, for fear of being exposed or discovered, did not explain to the anti-doping guy that he is actually not the athlete. Hence he played along and went for the test," added the AK source.

Last week, Kenya sent their track and field manager Michael Rotich home from the Games following allegations that he requested money to let undercover journalists, posing as athlete representatives, know when drugs testers would come calling. Rotich has denied the accusations.
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Kenya's Jemima Jelagat Sumgong celebrates her victory in the Women's Marathon during the athletics event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at Sambodromo in Rio de Janeiro on August 14, 2016. PHOTO | AFP

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Kenya's Sumgong wins Rio women's marathon
Sumgong times 2hr 24min 04sec for Kenya's first-ever women's marathon gold

SUNDAY AUGUST 14 2016
SUMGONG.jpg

Kenya's Jemima Jelagat Sumgong celebrates her victory in the Women's Marathon during the athletics event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at Sambodromo in Rio de Janeiro on August 14, 2016. PHOTO | AFP

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Sumgong times 2hr 24min 04sec for Kenya's first-ever women's marathon gold

SUNDAY AUGUST 14 2016
SUMGONG.jpg

Kenya's Jemima Jelagat Sumgong celebrates her victory in the Women's Marathon during the athletics event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at Sambodromo in Rio de Janeiro on August 14, 2016. PHOTO | AFP



Cheating her way through to the win ?? Nop I won't say that, coz my post was't about her. It was about a Kenyan Coach faking his way to the test. For Jemima Win's, My Congratulations !!!


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