Kenya says no athlete to Beijing doped in Helsinki, Osaka

Kenya on Wednesday maintained that its runners who had competed at the Helsinki and Osaka World Championships almost a decade ago were clean, and the IAAF has not informed them if any of its 51-member squad to Beijing is affected.

With the team set to depart for Beijing World Championships next week, Isaac Mwangi, Athletics Kenya CEO, confirmed to reporters in Nairobi, none of the Kenyans in camp is affected.

"IAAF has not communicated to us about any banning of athletes because one's samples taken back in 2005 (Helsinki) or Osaka (2007) has tested positive to current modern anti-doping technology," said Mwangi.

IAAF announced on Tuesday that 28 athletes have been reprimanded and disciplined after their sample provided during the two events, which had been proactively stored by the IAAF at the Swiss Laboratory for Doping Analyses (LAD), the WADA-accredited laboratory in Lausanne, in anticipation of new scientific developments, tuned positive.

"This strategy first revealed six adverse findings from Helsinki which were announced in March 2013, and to date, nine athletes have been sanctioned following re-testing of samples from various world championships," said a statement from IAAF. "This reanalysis has confirmed a further 28 athletes with 32 adverse findings."

Due to the legal process, none of these athletes can be named yet. A large majority of the 28 are retired, and some are athletes who have already been sanctioned, and only very few remain active in sport.

The IAAF is provisionally suspending them and can confirm that none of the athletes concerned will be competing in Beijing.

Kenya team has World 3,000m steeplechase champion Ezekiel Kemboi, Beijing Olympic champion in steeplechase Brimin Kipruto, Olympic 5,000m silver medalist Vivian Cheruiyot, former world 800m winner Janeth Jepkosgei (2007),and Asbel Kiprop (Osaka, fourth). Endi