{"id":9605,"date":"2020-06-15T17:20:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T17:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=9605"},"modified":"2020-06-15T17:20:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T17:20:22","slug":"doping-kenya-offers-more-funds-for-anti-doping-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/doping-kenya-offers-more-funds-for-anti-doping-lab","title":{"rendered":"Doping: Kenya offers more funds for anti-doping lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Kenya\u2019s increased budgetary allocation to sports will be used to fund an expansive anti-doping laboratory in Nairobi, which will accommodate more tests, said Cabinet secretary Amina Mohamed.<\/p>\n<p>Amina, who was speaking to reporters after touring the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK), said part of the Sh14 billion government budget fund will be used to stage the three international competitions planned for Kenya in the 2020\/21 season.<\/p>\n<p>It will also use the funds to prepare the country\u2019s team for the rescheduled Tokyo Olympic Games and other international competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya is to stage the World Athletics Continental Tour series this September, the 2021 WRC Safari Rally, and the postponed World Athletics U-20 Championship, which had been due to be held in Nairobi this July.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya has intensified its drug testing procedures, with over 60 athletes suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for doping-related offenses in the last five years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI paid a courtesy call on the ADAK and affirmed the provision of the requisite financing to the agency and also evaluated priority projects such as the expansion of the anti-doping laboratory in Nairobi to accommodate more tests,\u201d Mohamed said.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya\u2019s government has also started a stimulus program to bail out vulnerable athletes whose earnings have been affected by the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed said each athlete selected will receive the equivalent of 100 U.S. dollars every month for the next three months.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0Olympic 400m champion Wayde van Niekerk said he is \u201c100% ready\u201d to return to action when lockdown lifts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were days when I couldn\u2019t walk,\u201d said the 400m world record-holder, who has been out of action with a knee injury since 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Kenya: Kenya\u2019s increased budgetary allocation to sports will be used to fund an expansive anti-doping laboratory in Nairobi, which will accommodate more tests, said Cabinet secretary Amina Mohamed. 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