With questions over corruption,bribery and drugs, it might be time to borrow a solution from Wadas Russian playbook: a new meaty and forensic independent commissionSomething magical occurs in Kenya’s Rift Valley shortly after dawn: dozens of elite athletes suddenly appear into thin air. Quickly they start weaving between cattle and corrugated shacks, and past rusting trucks belching out the consequences of 30 years’ bad refuelling habits. It makes for a very different sort of rush hour.
The effect is mesmerising. The final time I was in Iten,which proudly bills itself as “the domestic of champions”, I saw David Rudisha gliding down a steep hill, and followed by a posse of schoolboys giving chase – a scene straight out of Rocky. But with so many top runners sucking up the benefits of tall altitude,and tackling the valley’s hills as if on travelators, such sights are not strange.
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Source: theguardian.com