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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Hargura",
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I would like to support an amendment to the Anti-Doping Bill which unfortunately, had to come back because of issues which are outside this Parliament. We are told it was to do with the drafters. As a country, we had cultivated an image of world champions, of world beaters like our neighbours the Ethiopians who we compete with. It is that image which is at stake through this kind of malpractice, which makes people doubt our prowess in athletics and which we have to protect because our athletes have attained what they have attained through their own personal efforts. We cannot allow them to lose because a culture has developed somewhere where everybody is put in the same basket. All athletes have to be checked, on and off competition, to make sure that they are not using any of the enhancement drugs or any substances. That is why we have to come in and make sure that we develop the necessary international laws and domesticate whatever is there, just like we are being told by WADA to do. This will ensure that we do not expose our athletes to any doubt, that is, whatever they are doing out there is due to their own capabilities and not being assisted by drugs or other substances. We have people who have done their best as we were told by Sen. Murkomen, that there are people who train in particular parts of this country to become world beaters. The other day I was listening to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) radio, and they said that there is a village in Ethiopia, called Dekhogi near Addis Ababa with high altitude where all those Ethiopian athletes come from and not scattered throughout Ethiopia. These people have been training throughout from their youth. Kenyans are doing the same in Iten. So, we need to protect them by having the necessary The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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