Athletes exercise in the early morning on the sports ground of University of Eldoret in western Kenya, March 21, 2016. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola/File Photo
ELDORET, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyan athletes on Monday backed a plan for a team of six internationally accredited doctors to take care of the country's top-level runners and be responsible for examining samples in an effort to end a series of doping scandals.
The doping cases threatened to derail Kenya's participation in last year's Rio Olympics, but its athletes were eventually allowed to compete and brought home a haul of long-distance running medals.
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