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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "He was found to have knowingly doped himself with his agent’s assistance and was stripped of all the gold medals he had won. In fact, one of the medals was given to Carl Lewis an American runner who celebrated because when Ben Johnson beat him in the Olympics, he protested and said that that superhuman running was not normal. It came to pass that in fact he was right; that Ben Johnson, a Jamaican born Canadian, had been on a mission to cheat the world. We have had other very good and decent athletes like Usain Bolt. Usain Bolt has been a world beater for the last decade in all sprints. Every effort has been taken to check whether he takes any enhancement drugs or not, and he was found clean. We salute such an athlete. We have our athletes here, for example, there was a young girl from Nandi, the one who won the Golden League Circuit; Pamela Jelimo. When I was the Minister for Foreign Affairs, I honoured her. She was the first athlete in this country to be given a diplomatic recognition and passport, only to end up on the rocks because of being mismanaged by her trainer and other agencies that come in force. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to urge Members of this House who are on Zoom and in the Chamber to support this Bill because it is going to help our country that sends clean athletes but we end up competing with others who have taken enhancement drugs, like we used to see in the Cold War days, where Russia, East Germany then and other countries, for them, defeating athletes from the West was a matter of national pride, and they left nothing to chance. They did everything possible. We trace our athletics to the good old days when Nyandika Mayoro, Naftali Temu, Wilson Kiprugut Juma, Kipchoge Keino and all others went to run sometimes on bare feet and won accolades for this country. Unfortunately, as we debate this Anti-Doping Bill, successive Governments in Kenya have done very little to honour our heroes. Our athletes who have brought fame to this country have not been given the recognition and support they deserve. I sometimes sit with Kipchoge Keino in Eldoret and we talk. He reflects on the tribulations they have gone through, including attempting to disgrace him for going to the Rio Olympics with his son. Kipchoge Keino should be bought a ticket by this country with whoever he chooses to go to attend any international sport because of the fame he has brought to this country. However, you saw the fanfare with which the criminal investigation agencies were pursuing him, making Kipchoge look like he was a fraudster, simply because he The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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