Doping

Comment: don’t Trust anyone – really anyone!

The Doping revelations of the ARD team about the machinations of a London physician, to make any Anti-Doping fight is not credible, says DW sports editor Tobias Oelmaier.

And now England. Sports nation. The mother country of football. Cradle of Amateur. A professional in the Premier League fall, he will be booed. You want to honest Sport. And now this
Revelations of the Teams to ARD reporters Hajo Seppelt. A London doctor who admits freely to a decoy, to have 150 Stars on steroids. Footballers, Cyclists, Boxers, Tennis Stars. Athletes from the first row.

From Russia or China is accustomed to these messages, Yes. Also from Kenya. Since you don’t expect anything else. But from England? It was not the officials of the island, which had positioned itself in the FIFA crisis courageously against the Blatter Regime? Is not just been entrusted to the national Anti-Doping Agency in the UK by the environment Agency in order to monitor the Tests in Russia?

And now these UKAD itself stands on the pillory. Because, supposedly, it was already some time ago by the informants of journalists, convicted and apparently reformed Doper, about the machinations of the dubious gynecologist Mark Bonar informed – supported by evidence. But nothing is happening. The short answer at the beginning of 2015: There is no basis for the investigation against the doctor.

DW-sports editor Tobias Oelmaier

In this light, creates a shadow on the medal Shine British athletes at the Olympic Games of London 2012. With 29 gold medals, the hosts stormed to third place in the Nations ranking. Where you rumgedümpelt 2000 and 2004 only. Only after the bid for London, it went uphill. It was explained that with the home advantage. And so, you have finally invested a lot in the games, and in the power structure of the athletes. In what, actually? In Sports Venues? In Trainer? In Sports Material? In the training of athletes? Or in a pharmaceutical support?

And now Rio is in front of the door. But who are we to believe now? In December, Thomas Bach, German President of the International Olympic Committee had announced “Zero tolerance” in regard to Doper. The Sport need the support of the governments, the act on the national Anti-Doping agencies and their possibilities to exploit. How is that going to work? Where is it supposed to work? If not, in a country like England.

Bach said recently that the Olympic Sport was the only area of human life, in which the same law applies to all of us throughout the world. The ARD revelations from London with full of hardness: It is just none of it. And the perpetrators are also covered – of which, you should transfer actually.