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Reprieve for Kenya after botched law throws country into a spin

President Uhuru Kenyatta appends his signature to the Kenya Anti-Doping bill at State House Nairobi

Kenya’s near-miss of the Rio Olympics was a result of three omissions in the new anti-doping law.

The deletion of definitions of two terminologies, criminalising of an athlete’s doping offence and the inclusion of  the Attorney General in the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya rendered the country non-compliant to the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) Code

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