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Athletics Kenya promises to take action over age cheating

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AK President Jackson Tuwei (left) at a past event. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

Lack of substantive age-cheating policy has raised huge concern even as Athletics Kenya (AK) starts crackdown on the fraud, with the federation admitting the vice goes as far as 2016, adding that they have so far unearthed 26 cases.

Just like doping menace which has been a concern for the past eight years for the country, age-cheating is posing another area for concerns for AK with the national running body setting up a committee to investigate the vice.

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