Another blow as Mercy Oketch fails doping test

The agency published names of athletes in a list headlined sprint sensation, world 4x400m mixed relays bronze medallist Mercy Oketch.

The Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (Adak) has released another lineup of distance athletes and players as the fight against prohibited substances in sport persists.

With the women’s 400m national record holder and more than ten other athletes under scrutiny for anti-doping rule violations facing provisional suspension in recent days, and a starring at a ban, Kenya at cross roads at it struggles to get out of category A of World Athletics Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) doping watch list.

Adak, in its publication claimed that Oketch tested positive for trimetazidine, a hormone and metabolic modulator and furosemide, a diuretic and masking agent.

A majority of the athletes provisionally suspended by Adak are suspected to have tested positive of performance enhancing drugs while others are facing accusation of evading, refusing or failing to submit to sample collection.

Source: The Standard Sports