The fall-out from ARD report
“Many runners called, emailed or wrote on my Face Book page but since my family competes from my father, bothers, sisters and myself, I could not say disparaging thing about Kenyan athletes since it would not have helped me.
“That was the career that brought me to where I am, I have met people, I have been to places but many things were written about me that I did not have anything to do with what was said,” the fourth finisher (senior men) at the Punta Umbria World Cross now claims.
“I remember the Mzungu (white man/Seppelt) from Germany came here to my home when I had just woken up, I don’t know who showed him my home and how they got here.
“He was in the company of three others and I tried to avoid him and speak with the three locals with him. What we were speaking about was the same thing we are talking about now,” Kisorio recalled.
He explained. “He was showing me a list of athletes asking me whether I know them and I told him they are Kenyan athletes whom we do not train together.
“Later, it was published that I had implicated 30 athletes in doping but I was upset because, some of them train as far as Eldoret or Iten while I train in Eldoret. I have no idea how they train.”
What sparked his return?
“What made me return was watching how my brothers were running well. They would call me and ask me to accompany them to training.
“At that time, I had almost given up on the sport, I thought I would never come back but when I started training, my body got back to shape and it gave me motivation to see others run,” he told, an hour after he had completed an 18km long run in 45 minutes in the lush hilly terrain near Kaptagat where he has a home.
“Its not a mistake to error, the mistake is to repeat that error and a slip is not a fall, one must err and that is what encouraged me to continue training,” he stressed.
Soon after it was confirmed he had been suspended, did his coach Berardelli and manager, Federico Rosa, both Italians, stand by him?
