Caught Doping? Blame Climate Change
Kenya, 2012 (Photo credit: Moridin_)
A putative doping scandal has besmirched Kenya's reputation as the world's most fertile training grounds for runners. Naturally, the country's track and field officials blame climate change.
"Our country is known for its high performance around the world in middle and long distance," David Okeyo, the Secretary General of Athletics Kenya, told Reuters Foundation's AlertNet. "However, climate change associated with hot weather spells is bringing a lot of complications."
To wit, Kenyans won just two gold medals in the London Olympics, a disappointing haul compared to the six the country lugged home from Beijing four years earlier. Mr. Okeyo attributes the subpar performance to warming in the country's Rift Valley where the athletes train. Over the last 11 years, the average annual temperature has risen to 58.1 degrees Farenheit from 55.4 (These temperatures are considered to be ideal for running). Kenya's gold medal count last summer, however, was no worse nor better than at the 2000 Olympics.
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If you have a stomach ache, it isn't the dozen three day old burritos you ate, it's climate change. Go sue the Koch brothers and Exxon.
That was a flimsy lie very easily cast to the ground and stomped on. Is that all they got as a defense?