Major Michael Rotich, Kenya’s former head of track and field team has been banned from athletics for ten years by athletics’ world governing body, IAAF.
An ethics panel found Major Michael Rotich guilty of providing athletes and coaches advance notice of drug tests for financial gain.
Rotich’s advance notice of drug tests was to assist athletes flush their systems of banned substances before taking doping tests.
Allegations of wrongdoing against Rotich sprung up in 2016 when he was secretly filmed making an offer to provide prior warning of drug tests in return for £10,000.
He was sent home from Rio and an investigation by the IAAF and the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya followed.
Rotich, who managed the Kenyan athletics team at the 2016 Olympics in Rio was ruled guilty of acting corruptly to distort competitions as well as violating the core principles of the IAAF’s code of ethics.
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