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Can someone explain to me why a coach and athlete in Kenya were forging documents saying there was massive doping in Kenya? The reality is we know there is doping in Kenya but I don't think it's state sponsored.
But what I want to know is why would they do this? Were the journalists paying them for the info? Do we know who they were working for?
An article in the Standard shows how they turned a Danish media outlet that was fishing into a small income stream. They basically told them what they wanted to hear for a small monthly fee. The Danes desperately wanted to portray Kenya's running success as a lie fuelled by doping à la Russia, so they were essentially using these two clowns as paid supposed informants who in turn falsely accused a bunch of random individuals in the community of doping offences.
Corruption all around. Denmark exporting journalistic malpractice to Kenya.
An article in the Standard shows how they turned a Danish media outlet that was fishing into a small income stream. They basically told them what they wanted to hear for a small monthly fee. The Danes desperately wanted to portray Kenya's running success as a lie fuelled by doping à la Russia, so they were essentially using these two clowns as paid supposed informants who in turn falsely accused a bunch of random individuals in the community of doping offences.
Corruption all around. Denmark exporting journalistic malpractice to Kenya.
An article in the Standard shows how they turned a Danish media outlet that was fishing into a small income stream. They basically told them what they wanted to hear for a small monthly fee. The Danes desperately wanted to portray Kenya's running success as a lie fuelled by doping à la Russia, so they were essentially using these two clowns as paid supposed informants who in turn falsely accused a bunch of random individuals in the community of doping offences.
Corruption all around. Denmark exporting journalistic malpractice to Kenya.
I’d just say rudimentary research/following of Kenya shows there is hustling/crime of all types. It doesn’t need to be extremely lucrative/sensible. A lot of people ask how/why are athletes getting busted for obviously detectable (Tri Acetate) or minimally beneficial drugs? Well, because someone can make money off of them by pushing it upon them for profit. So does it surprise me you’d see a scheme like this involving forgery etc.? No, not at all.
I was going to make a thread on this. 17 years in prison for whistleblowing?
A few years ago a German TV company (ARD I think) produced a letter that was claimed to be from Athletics Kenya inviting hush money from athletes who had tested positive. Athletics Kenya then pointed out that the seal contained a spelling error, so it couldn't possibly have been them, and it was widely accepted have been a forgery on that basis. It took me 10 minutes of Googling to find another official Athletics Kenya letter with a spelling error. I created a thread on that but I think one of your mods deleted it for being 'discriminatory' after somebody reported it.
rumor from a pretty well known non-profit dude in Iten was that Big Shoe Company deal to get The Brand onto Kenyan singlets involved bribery somewhere down the line. All money flows upwards. The Federation has an implicit vested interest in sponsoring a blind spot that corrupts the entire sport.
Just how things work in that part of the world.
I don't think people in Denmark or USA can even fathom the poverty of the Rift Valley and the red dirt roads of greater Eldoret... Ak-47 street battles in the capital between gangs, and mafia control of the Mombasa ports = global "corruption" that people in the west like to pretend doesn't exist from the comfort of their steamed oat-milk road-rage-inducing commutes with the Nike-sponsored podcaster on full-blast....
rumor from a pretty well known non-profit dude in Iten was that Big Shoe Company deal to get The Brand onto Kenyan singlets involved bribery somewhere down the line. All money flows upwards. The Federation has an implicit vested interest in sponsoring a blind spot that corrupts the entire sport.
Just how things work in that part of the world.
I don't think people in Denmark or USA can even fathom the poverty of the Rift Valley and the red dirt roads of greater Eldoret... Ak-47 street battles in the capital between gangs, and mafia control of the Mombasa ports = global "corruption" that people in the west like to pretend doesn't exist from the comfort of their steamed oat-milk road-rage-inducing commutes with the Nike-sponsored podcaster on full-blast....
An article in the Standard shows how they turned a Danish media outlet that was fishing into a small income stream. They basically told them what they wanted to hear for a small monthly fee. The Danes desperately wanted to portray Kenya's running success as a lie fuelled by doping à la Russia, so they were essentially using these two clowns as paid supposed informants who in turn falsely accused a bunch of random individuals in the community of doping offences.
Corruption all around. Denmark exporting journalistic malpractice to Kenya.
But what I want to know is why would they do this? Were the journalists paying them for the info? Do we know who they were working for?
Yes. Journalists from Europe do this all the time. A few years back , a German TV outlet did a fake story about doping in Kenya where they did not show the faces of any of the supposed Doctors or athletes they spoke to. They blurred their faces. Why would they go undercover and still blur the faces of the people they are supposedly busting.
My guess is that this Danish TV station was going to do a fake story then release it right before the Olympics for maximum sensation.
Kenyan officials have become weary. Every four years, some European jokers visit Kenya, do a fake story and release it right before the Olympics.
