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Kenya official arrested after being sent home from Rio

Michael Rotich

Kenyan police have arrested the country's athletics manager who was sent home from the Rio Games and is being investigated after allegations he was asking for cash in return for warning athletes before drug tests, officials said on Tuesday.

Michael Rotich denies the accusation published in Britain's Sunday Times newspaper, which said he had been filmed by undercover journalists, posing as athlete representatives, some months ago.

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