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WADA just re-instated Russia, after barring them from competing in the Olympics (but allowing Russian athletes to compete in the Olympics).
‘Today we failed the clean athletes of the world’
On Thursday the World Anti-Doping Agency failed, deliberately and with purpose. At a meeting in the Seychelles, WADA’s executive committee voted 9-2 to reinstate Russia’s anti-doping entity, RUSADA, under softer, potentially unenforceable conditions. Russia ran the most significant doping system in the last 40 years everywhere it could. Russia is back. And WADA failed because it was designed to fail.
“WADA cannot win, but everybody right now is playing catch-up on WADA.” said Washington, D.C., attorney David W. Larkin, who has deep experience dealing with international sports and its regulatory paths. “If you watched WADA for a long time, you know WADA aren’t the good guys, and WADA aren’t the bad guys. They’re somewhere in between.”
Wada lifts Russia’s three-year doping suspension and faces its biggest crisis
• Russian Anti-Doping Agency controversially reinstated
• Move heavily criticised by athletes and anti-doping groups
The World Anti-Doping Agency is facing the gravest crisis in its 19-year history after it was widely condemned by other members of the anti-doping community for a “bewildering” and “deeply troubling” decision to lift the suspension of Russia.
Nicole Sapstead, the chief executive of UK Anti-Doping, said the move was premature and accused Wada of “casting aside its responsibilities to clean athletes, sports fans and those who work tirelessly for clean sport”. The US Anti-Doping chief executive, Travis Tygart, called the decision “bewildering and inexplicable” and a “devastating blow to the world’s clean athletes”.
‘Today we failed the clean athletes of the world’
On Thursday the World Anti-Doping Agency failed, deliberately and with purpose. At a meeting in the Seychelles, WADA’s executive committee voted 9-2 to reinstate Russia’s anti-doping entity, RUSADA, under softer, potentially unenforceable conditions. Russia ran the most significant doping system in the last 40 years everywhere it could. Russia is back. And WADA failed because it was designed to fail.
“WADA cannot win, but everybody right now is playing catch-up on WADA.” said Washington, D.C., attorney David W. Larkin, who has deep experience dealing with international sports and its regulatory paths. “If you watched WADA for a long time, you know WADA aren’t the good guys, and WADA aren’t the bad guys. They’re somewhere in between.”
Wada lifts Russia’s three-year doping suspension and faces its biggest crisis
• Russian Anti-Doping Agency controversially reinstated
• Move heavily criticised by athletes and anti-doping groups
The World Anti-Doping Agency is facing the gravest crisis in its 19-year history after it was widely condemned by other members of the anti-doping community for a “bewildering” and “deeply troubling” decision to lift the suspension of Russia.
Nicole Sapstead, the chief executive of UK Anti-Doping, said the move was premature and accused Wada of “casting aside its responsibilities to clean athletes, sports fans and those who work tirelessly for clean sport”. The US Anti-Doping chief executive, Travis Tygart, called the decision “bewildering and inexplicable” and a “devastating blow to the world’s clean athletes”.
