Kenya has been on watch list by World Anti Doping together with IAAF but double Olympic 800m champion David Rudisha has come to the defence of athletes.
Rudisha told athletes during the Anti Doping campaign in Nandi County that athletes should not be used by other people in spreading the vice.
“As athletes we should be used by other people to propagate doping in our careers. We have a point to prove to the world that we can run and win clean,” said the world 800m record holder.
Speaking during the Athletics Kenya ant-doping day in Kapsabet, Rudisha said Kenya’s athletic pioneers ran clean thus raising the country’s flag high globally.
“I am very worried that some athletes are being cheated tobuse performance enhancing drugs. We are killing the talent that our fathers and mothers started many years ago because they ran through natural training,” Rudisha said.
Rudisha who is the CAA president said the only people to stop doping in the country are the athletes who are solely responsible for what they enter their bodies.
“If today an athlete say No to Doping then we will win the war against doping. It is us athletes who will put an end to it and I want to urge you to compete clean,” He said.
Then event started with a breakfast and hen a five kilometre march from East View through the streets of Kapsabet and ended at County sports offices.
AK first vice president Paul Mutwii, CEO Susan Kamau among other top officials.