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"speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
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"content": "That is why we normally do not do very well. In the end, Kenya would have probably been number one, two or three in the Olympics or in other sporting events. However, because most of our athletes concentrate on field events, and to some extent track events, we do not normally do very well overall compared to the countries that get away with most of the medals. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you will remember that Hitler wanted to create a master race. They actually came up with a way of breeding, preparing and rearing the Aryan race, which would have been a superior race, creating supermen. That is why athletics was so important to Hitler. Genetic engineering to some extent played an important role. That was not lost to the country called East Germany. There was a time when East Germany always used to do very well in world games and world Olympics, especially in track events because they were using performance enhancing drugs. The moment these controls came into effect, although not as effectively as it is today, that country started losing out. They ultimately became part of the Federal Republic of Germany. The event in Berlin in 1936 was very instructive of the ideas that men have about the creation of super men and super women. It also involved elimination of those who they thought were inferior. If you were somebody who was deformed, in the eyes of the Germans, you were for elimination, not for treatment. Without mentioning names, big countries both in the East and West now take a lot of time to make sure that they reign supreme in these events. To that extent, sometimes I wonder whether in putting these legal regimes, including anti-doping, the third world countries and countries of the South are not getting a raw deal. I was just discussing with Sen. Wetangula, and I heard his speech earlier; he is very well informed and a repository of these events over time. I was just wondering whether sometimes in applying these rules, sometimes they can be done so selectively that athletes suffer. Seeing that we do not have the same resources and facilities, we might not be able to be of use to some of these athletes when they face such crisis. For example, when one of your own is banned for life, how does the country help? Some countries go out--- When most of the Russians were being kept out of athletics because of suspicions of doping and so on, their country developed a regime where they could help their athletes challenge some of these decisions by world anti-doping organizations. I hope that countries in the South can get together and create facilities. You never know, just like there is cheating in football, if an athlete from Kenya, including from the county of champions, Nandi, and Uasin Gishu County, you may have an agent there who, for some reason, may be used in order to make sure that we fail at a cost. Some of these agents tend to be foreigners. For some reason, they are used in order to make sure that we fail at a cost. How do we make sure that those kinds of things happen? If we just become part of an organisation or process without having real sense in it, we may suffer a lot of consequences. That is not to say that this law is important."
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