The Executive of the world Anti-Doping Agency, WADA shall decide within the framework of their meeting on Thursday in the Seychelles, whether the suspension of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency RUSADA is repealed.
Blood sample from an Anti-doping laboratory
Athletes and politicians are horrified by the Anti-Doping agencies of many countries are sounding the Alarm: The probable resumption of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency RUSADA and the associated Rehabilitation of the Doping-great Russia by the world Anti-Doping Agency, WADA, on Thursday at the Executive meeting in the Seychelles around the world for lack of understanding.
“This is a real joke and a slap in the face of every clean athlete,” said Travis Tygart, head of the US Anti-Doping Agency USADA. Whistleblower Grigory Rodtschenkow, had brought with his statements, the detection of the Doping scandal in Russia to the rolls, spoke of a “disaster for the clean Sport”.
The German Olympic sports Confederation (DOSB) called it “fatal” should be the WADA of your criteria. Russia had finally to show that the fair Competition “as a unifying Element in the world of accepted sports, and actively implemented,” said DOSB President Alfons Hörmann.
The IOC is said to have exerted pressure on the WADA
The Russian Flag in front of the Olympic rings
Due to the suspension of RUSADA, the Russian are excluded athletes and disabled athletes from their world federations IAAF or IPC. That could change with the resumption of RUSADA.
The hopes that it considered the WADA after the global storm of protest, are low. “The Statements of many opponents to the decision worry at the moment for the public interest,” said Dagmar Freitag, Chairwoman of the sports Committee in the German Bundestag, “but for Mr Reedie, the wishes of the IOC are crucial.”
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) to put pressure on WADA and its President, Craig Reedie. The independent Compliance audit Committee, CRC had recommended last Friday, surprisingly, the WADA and the RUSADA after three years. As the reason of the CRC mentioned that the RUSADA would comply with the two outstanding, basic conditions. Strange only, that the CRC had demanded three days earlier, nor the maintenance of the suspension.
The WADA was Russia received
“With astonishment we note that now, however, overnight things have changed,” wrote the German National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA). Earlier, the CRC had received a letter from the Russian Ministry of sports, in which there was a promise, the results of the Schmid-Reports recognise about Doping in Russia. For the other contentious point, access to the Moscow Anti-Doping laboratory, to give a concrete schedule.
However, WADA had received in Russia. A Letter from Reedie to the Russian Minister of sport Pavel Kolobkow of 22. June shows that the Agency, headquartered in Montreal, was waived in favor of the Russians from their original hard route and, above all, the criterion of access to the Moscow doping laboratory, large concessions made.
An independent body, not WADA, to perform the controls, and only after a resumption of RUSADA. In addition, the Russians no longer had to all of a sudden the McLaren Report, but only the less strictly formulated IOC Report of the Swiss Samuel Schmid acknowledge.
A Collective Lack Of Understanding
Travis Tygart, head of the US anti-doping Agency USADA
Tygart reacted with anger and incomprehension. “To this day, WADA officials have no access to the samples of athletes in the Moscow laboratory. In addition, the McLaren has not been recognized-Report to date public,” said the once-in the case of Lance Armstrong, the lead Prosecutor, last and pushed: “The interests of a handful of sports officials about the rights of millions of clean athletes.”
Also within the WADA it simmers. Athletes spokeswoman Beckie Scott, resigned in Protest from the CRC. Silke Kassner, Deputy Chairman of the Association of the athletes of Germany, called upon the WADA urgent, to postpone the decision in the Case of Russia. “We need the System, there is no alternative. But the set of rules must be adhered to, otherwise we need the Institution of WADA.”
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