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AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Former world marathon record-holder Paul Tergat said on Monday that criminalising doping will help end vice in the country.<\/p>\n

Tergat stated the country must move with speed and create a new law that will criminalise the offence.<\/p>\n

“We all ran clean and we want our current crop of athletes to run clean. There’s no shortcut to clean sports except training hard.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo many things have been happening right, left and centre regarding doping in Kenya,” said Tergat.<\/p>\n

Tergat, the National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOC-K) president, indicated athletes caught doping should serve jail time.<\/p>\n

“Kenya now needs to be tough on dopers by criminalising their offences. They will suffer double loss to revenue and time in jail if they are found doping,” said Tergat.<\/p>\n

“At the current rate, Kenya risks being banned from the Olympics or big city’s marathons. What we need to do is make the punishment for offenders more punitive.<\/p>\n

This will also bar offenders from putting on our national colours and make them ineligible to compete elsewhere,” Tergat added.<\/p>\n

Sports Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed said in January the Government would not let up in its fight against doping.<\/p>\n

Former World Marathon record holder Wilson Kipsang and former World Under-20 champion Alfred Kipketer were both charged in January with breaking anti-doping rules.<\/p>\n

Current Kenyan law stipulates a jail term\u00a0of up to three years for support staff found guilty in connection with doping, but not for athletes.<\/p>\n

From 2004 to August 2018, 138 Kenyan athletes tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs, according to a WADA report published in September 2018.<\/p>\n

With their high number of dopers, Kenya was placed under category A on the list of countries being watched together with Nigeria, Ethiopia, Bahrain, Morocco, Ukraine and Belarus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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