FILE PHOTO - 2016 Rio Olympics - Athletics - Final - Men's 1500m Final - Olympic Stadium - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 20/08/2016. Asbel Kiprop (KEN) of Kenya and Taoufik Makhloufi (ALG) of Algeria compete. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
ELDORET, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenya's former Olympic and three-time world 1500-metres champion Asbel Kiprop said on Friday he will not fight doping charges against him and accused his country and management of abandoning him in his hour of need.
"I have filed my defence and it is upon them (Athletes Integrity Unit, AIU) to see what to do with it. I am at their mercy," Kiprop, 28, told Reuters in his rural Simat home on Friday.
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