On Monday AK announced the suspension of operations of the Keringet training camp that was being run by former national cross-country team coach Charles Ng’eno who has in the past used training programs designed by one of the most successful athletics coach Italian Renato Canova and banned the local tactician from handling any local athletes’ indefinitely.
Rosa Associati camp managed by Italian Federico Rosa who coached leading marathoner Rita Jeptoo who is currently serving a two-year ban for EPO, and handles several Kenyan athletes including reigning World champions Eunice Sum (800m), Asbel Kiprop(1500m) is being probed by the AK Medical and Doping commission, the newly established Anti- Doping Agency of Kenya and the Kenya Police as he had three top level runners implicated in doping in the last four years.
AK cracked the whip on Gerard Van de Veen of the Netherlands who manages the leading powerful world marathon record holder Dennis Kimmeto and former holder Wilson Kipsang, Geoffrey Mutai, two time New York winner among others under Volare Sports for purportedly violating undisclosed AK rules.
Kipsang was last November warned publicly by AK for skipping a mandatory out of competition doping test and he had not reportedly informed the Federation of his whereabouts.
The 2013 London marathon champion is also the chairperson of the Professional Athletics Association of Kenya, a body that has been fighting for the resignation of the AK boss over different issues including the upsurge in doping cases in the country.
when contacted by a certain local news agency two agents, Federico said he was yet to receive any official communication from AK while Van de Veen requested for space to settle as he had just arrived home from abroad .