Kenyan athletes don't dope, secret 'drug' for their excellence is mursik!

From Wilson Erupe to Rita Jeptoo, the list of Kenyan athletes who have been banned due to doping is growing longer at a disturbing rate.

Since 2012, the number is cruising to 30 yet we have only managed to get a few woofs from those who matter in the sport.

Studying the list of athletes who have been banned or are facing ban makes an interesting case. For the Love of the Game went through the list -- with an eye of an eagle looking for a prey in a forest-- and realised that almost all of them, say 99 percent, come from Rift Valley.

Now that is where the whole case of doping gets interesting, if not mysterious. You see, one thing runs through all these athletes from Rift Valley.

You guessed it right; they all drink mursik. And that is where perhaps the problem lies. For the Love of the Game had a eureka moment about the doping menace, which may consume our favourite sport, and that revelation pointed to nothing else but mursik.

Mursik is one of the unique foods people from Rift Valley take, which investigators need to scrutinise if at all it contains banned properties that give our athletes resilience on the track. 

Certainly, our athletes must be doping on mursik. Those substances that Kenyan athletes have been banned for including boldenone, erythropoietin, prednisolone, dexamethasone, norandrosterone and salbutamol may all have come from mursik, a popular drink that the athletes, especially from those from Rift Valley, partake.

For starters, mursik is prepared from fermented milk in gourds. Animal blood and ash is added in the milk either before or after fermentation and the mixture is boiled and left to cool for three to five days before it is consumed.

To begin with, that milk and blood comes from a cow, which might have drunk polluted water from rivers Sosiani or Mau in Uasin Gishu County. From your biology, you know that chemical substances a cow or chicken consumes will at one point find themselves in human bodies.

With mursik being a favourite drink for many of our athletes, some who take it for breakfast and before they go to bed, that explains why cases of doping may be rising lately.

Again, you never know what else our athletes eat or drink when they are strutting the streets of Eldoret or Nyahururu. Prednisolone and dexamethasone may be in that nyama choma, mbuzi boilo or even busaa.

For the Love of the Game believes any right thinking athlete cannot knowingly use such substances when they know the repercussions are drastic.

Concerned authorities should investigate thoroughly the Kenyan doping cases because all the problem may be is that sour milk we call mursik.