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Kenyan runners accused of doping cheats

19th May 2012 20:25  

NORDJYSKE

The former chairman of the Anti Doping Denmark, Bengt Saltin, believes that Kenyans doper himself in secret. The Kenyan runners is first class on long haul, but perhaps there is a very special reason. Swedish physiology professor Bengt Saltin, which For nearly 40 years has worked in Denmark and was the first president of the Anti Doping Denmark, said that the Kenyans are using illegal methods. In the TV show "Sportschau" on the German television channel ARD gave Saltin Saturday expressed his suspicions to the beautiful times that runners from Kenya have been in recent years. - We have noticed how Kenya 's blood values ​​during the period 2008 to 2010 have been much higher than in previous years, when they race in Europe . - Such a phenomenon we have not seen before. It is beyond any doubt for me that there is some kind of blood manipulation, says Saltin according to the German news agency DPA.International Association of Athletics Federations IAAF has not made ​​similar observations, but it is perhaps also with the fact that no is carried out doping control in Kenya. Thus one can not detect if a running example is doped with EPO, and it admits the Swiss Gabriel Dollé, who is the IAAF's medical director.- It has not been possible to bring about the necessary conditions, says Dollé referring to the fact that there are strict requirements for transporting and storing doping samples that you can not live up to in many African countries including Kenya. / AFP / 

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