WADA says Kenya non-compliant with anti-doping

WADA is a tool of the west against global south athletes. We need a new paradigm.

But I was told they only had a few bad apples

But I was told WADA is a tool against America. Now what?

...ADAK had not addressed "several critical requirements" which were highlighted in an audit in May last year.

Since May 2024? But i was told ADAK was doing so great, much better than everybody else. All so weird here.

What happened in May 2024? With a little digging at WADA's site, here is the outcome of the audit in May 2024:

https://www.wada-ama.org/sites/default/files/2025-09/Kenya%20NADO.pdf

Without diving into the details, it looks like WADA thinks the main obstacles are not questions of will, but of resources:

"From the discussions, interviews, observation of procedures and review of documents provided by Kenya NADO during the audit, it was apparent that Kenya NADO had prepared for the audit and was open in the discussions."

"The Kenya NADO recorded a significant number of findings, many resulting from a lack of human and financial resources at the time of the audit."

Just highlighting a few issues that aided the cheaters in Kenya:

Critical findings

1. It was apparent from the discussions that Kenya NADO requires more financial and human resources in order to deliver an effective anti-doping program.
2. It was identified that Kenya NADO had not entered all Doping Control Forms (DCFs) within 21-days of sample collection and that additional errors were found on other DCFs requiring attention.
3. Although Kenya NADO had completed a testing risk assessment, it did not meet the requirements of the International Standard for Testing and Investigations (ISTI), including, the quantitative analysis required, the final risk scores and the frequency of updating the risk assessment.

4. The Test Distribution Plan (TDP) was not aligned with the risk assessment and the implementation of tests was not in line with the plan due to budget constraints. In addition, it was observed that out-of-competition testing was frequently conducted in large groups reducing the unpredictability of testing.
5. Shortfalls were identified in the administration of the Registered Testing Pool (RTP) as detailed in the ISTI, including, the criteria for inclusion, the notification process for athletes of their inclusion and removal, the systematic review of whereabouts filings and insufficient tests on RTP athletes.
6. Kenya NADO’s various results management notices and notifications did not contain a number of the mandatory requirements as detailed in the International Standard for Results Management (ISRM). In addition, Kenya NADO did not always notify WADA or the relevant International Federation.
7. It was evident that mandatory provisional suspensions are not consistently imposed.
8. In general, Kenya NADO’s result management cases are not managed in a timely manner in line with the ISRM. This includes Atypical Findings (ATFs) which are not investigated timely, including follow up sample collections required and the relevant notifications to the relevant Anti-Doping Organization (ADOs) whether or not the ATF will be brought forward as an Adverse Analytical Finding (AAF).
9. Kenya NADO did not issue whereabouts decision in accordance with the ISRM, nor upload decisions and notices into ADAMS. In addition, the notice of a potential filing failure does not advise the athlete that in order to avoid a further filing failure they must file the missing whereabouts information by a deadline which must be within 48 hours.
10. Decisions from the Sports Dispute Tribunal do not consistently include justifications for the reduction of a period of ineligibility as required in the Code and ISRM. In addition, Kenya NADO did not issue a reasoned decision when it was agreed with the athlete on a period of ineligibility.
11. The Kenya NADO did not provide all mandatory education information on its website as required by the Code, including information on anti-doping rule violations.[/quote]

So

- lack of unpredictable OOC tests

- lack of mandatory provisional suspensions

- lack of review of missed tests

- lack of justification of reduced bans

- ...

Not a good picture at all.

Surely Chebet is clean though!

They’ve been saying this for the past decade but they’ve done absolutely nothing. They have world record holders, world champions, Olympic champions popped every year. WADA is a joke. World Athletics is a joke.

+1

This year alone, and it's just September, the AIU (not ADAK!) banned three Kenyan world record holders with Kandie, Koech and Chepngetich. Ridiculous.

And Sawe is sooooo brave, too!

So sad that Coevett the constant liar is banned again.

I can't see any reason for this.

You're a tool of the west.

But who told them that doping was what made them great runners?

You did.

Careful what you wish for. Cutting funds from ADAK will mean that hundreds of Kenyan athletes don’t get tested. No other organisation has the infrastructure to do it. That will level the field and mean Kenyans get busted at the same frequency as the US and UK, which is essentially none.

Ban Kenya - problem solved.

Should have happened a long time ago.

Then focus AIU resources on Ethiopia.

You need evidence of systemic doping to ban a country. Without doping busts, you have no grounds.

The wording in the article is confusing but my understanding is that the funding wont be cut to ADAK but to AK itself. So AK will have less money to send teams, wont get grants for WA at all for anything performance or sport related. Able to send less staff, physios, etc to champs.

Basically the sport gets starved of funding except for anti doping.

If they had nukes and posed the smallest of threats to American hegemony the entire country would have been banned long ago.