British Athletics could stop sending athletes to Kenya for high-altitude training after doping claims

British athletics are reviewing whether to continue sending athletes to Kenya for high-altitude training in the wake of doping allegations in the East African country.

Kenyan doctors had claimed last week to have given performance-enhancing substances to 50 elite runners, including three Britons.

Two UK Anti-Doping officials have been in Kenya since the allegations were made, and British Athletics performance director Neil Black has said the body were looking into whether to continue sending their elite athletes there for warm-weather training.

“We review on a continuous basis and we’ve been looking at our approach to all our warm-weather training,” he said. “For example, we had some concerns last year about terrorism [in Kenya] but decided we were okay because we were getting constant feedback from security experts. And we’ve constantly monitored the situation with performance-enhancing drugs.

“We’ve been aware of that, thinking about that and evaluating it over the last 12 to 18 months — we’re looking at it right now.”

Since the doping allegations — in a joint investigation by The Sunday Times and German television — two Kenyan doctors have been probed and UKAD officials have been trying to corroborate the claims.