{IOC has launched disciplinary proceedings against the coach.}<\/p>\n
Kenya on Thursday withdrew a second athletics coach from the Rio Olympics in five days over a doping cheat bid.<\/p>\n
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it had launched disciplinary proceedings against the coach, who media reports said had impersonated an athlete for a doping test.<\/p>\n
The official has been named in media reports as sprint coach John Anzrah.<\/p>\n
“We take note of the decision of the Kenyan Olympic Committee to send home its athletics coach following a violation of anti-doping rules and we thank the NOC for its swift action,” said an IOC spokeswoman.<\/p>\n
“The IOC has immediately created a disciplinary commission to look into the matter with regard to the coach and the athlete concerned,” the spokeswoman added.<\/p>\n
The Olympics athletics team manager Michael Rotich was ordered back to Kenya last weekend after a media investigation said he had demanded money to give warnings of looming doping tests.<\/p>\n
Rotich is now in custody in Nairobi while police investigate.<\/p>\n
Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper and German television channel ARD filmed Rotich allegedly demanding $13,000 for testing information.<\/p>\n
Rotich’s lawyer told a Nairobi court on Wednesday that the athletics manager denies any wrongdoing.
\nKenya is under close scrutiny from the International Association of Athletics Federations after a series of doping cases.<\/p>\n
Rotich was the third athletics official to be charged under a new Kenyan anti-doping law which came into force in June from demands from the World Anti-Doping Agency and the IAAF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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