The war on cheating in sports has intensified with the local Anti-doping agency mounting choreographed educational programs for athletics coaches and officials.
The Ant-Doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK) has organized a one day educational Workshop on 1st of September 2017 in Nakuru.
The Friday day-long seminar comes at a time when Athletics Kenya and the national ant-doping organization team up in the fight against use of outlawed substances.
The Workshop, targeting trainers and administrators of all sports disciplines in the region, will be hold at Bontana Hotel from 08.00 am to 4:00Pm with the organizers providing lunch for the participants.
According to Liz Wamalwa Yatich, an ADAK educator, the sport managers will be taken through various issues of concern about doping and Anti-doping, what to take as a sports person and what to avoid in order to ensure clean competitions in all sports in the country.
“This is one of the several educational programs the Ant-Doping Agency of Kenya has put in place across the country. We have to make the officials have the knowledge of the prohibited list by WADA, dangers of doping and the consequences,” said the educator, also Baringo County Director of Sports.
She added it is important for coaches and officials to understand and help sportspersons take care of themselves and stay away from harmful indulgence as the country fight to get out of the World Anti-Doping Agency watch list.
Early this year, Athletics Kenya adopted a raft of stringent measures for elite athletes that included medical sanctions and disclosure of their where-about with WADA intensifying doping tests.
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