War on doping: Martin Yauma, from Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya-Head of Education and Research speaks during the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya/Athletics Kenya awareness creation seminar for World Championships probables held at EKA Hotel in Eldoret town, Uasin Gishu County on November 15, 2022 ahead of the event to be held in Budapest, Hungary next year.
Category “A” requires Kenyan athletes to undergo three out-of-competition doping tests 10 months before any World Athletics Championships and Olympic Games
ADAK conducted the first of the two education sessions in Eldoret on Tuesday and the second one will take place at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) in Nairobi on Wednesday
ADAK’s head of education and research Martin Yauma said that the education series are to bring athletes up to speed on World Athletics rules ahead of the World Championships
Kenya’s participation at the World Athletics Championships and Olympic Games has in the recent past taken centre stage for wrong reasons rather than performances.
When World Athletics placed Kenya in category “A” of the countries where doping is prevalent, it came with grave repercussions geared towards a clean World Athletics Championships and Olympics.