Calls have been made for disciplinary action to be taken against Kenya’s Sevens team head coach Paul Treu after steroids were found in supplements taken by members of the Kenyan team.
The report by a task force set up by the government to investigate allegations of doping in Kenyan sport says there are "strong suggestions" that Treu and his assistants have violated anti-doping rules after introducing the supplements to players.
There was "a concoction they (the coaches) gave players to drink at the beginning and end of training," Moni Wekesa, the chairperson of the task force that investigated, told The Associated Press on Monday.
The report also stated that the Kenyan players would stop taking the supplements a few days for competing.
Wekesa said that tests performed on the supplements in January were positive for steroids, and the Kenya Rugby Union (KRU) was immediately informed.
The former South Africa Sevens coach introduced the supplements to the Kenyan team shortly after arriving as the head coach last year, the report said.
"Samples of these were retrieved from the union and subjected to laboratory analysis and were found to contain steroids," the report said.
The report advised that Treu, strength and conditioning coach Graham Bentz, assistant coach Felix Ochieng, attack coach Vuyo Zangqa and conditioning coaches George Kimani and Michael Owino should be "subjected to a disciplinary process" by anti-doping authorities.
The investigation by the task team initially focused on Kenyan athletics, after German broadcaster ARD alleged widespread doping in the East African nation's world-beating runners in a documentary aired in 2012.
"It came out that a lot of prohibited substances, some recreational, others sophisticated, are commonly abused across all sports," Wekesa’s report said.
