NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — For some Kenyan runners, a doping ban isn’t a total ban.
Benjamin Kiprop Serem bagged 50,000 Indian rupees ($740) for winning the Calicut Mini-Marathon in India on March 1, 2015, midway through his two-year ban for using the steroid nandrolone at the Beirut Marathon in 2013.
Bernard Mwendia Muthoni placed sixth in the Melaka River International Marathon in Malaysia last December, even though his two-year ban for a nandrolone byproduct runs to Nov. 15 this year.
That banned runners can compete speaks to loose policing of Kenya’s offshore running industry.