WADA has said that it will continue drug testing in blacklisted countries, but this testing would be carried out independently. “Everybody in the world expects that to happen”, Pound said. We’re at a crossroads. Our priority is now on ensuring all our partners are fully compliant and have watertight anti-doping systems that protect clean athletes and reassure sports fans worldwide.
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Russia’s member on the WADA Foundation board, deputy sports minister Pavel Kolobkov, sat stoically during the vote, which he was not part of. But no action was taken.
WADA president Craig Reedie told Scott, “it’s quite hard to agree today, around this table, that we would investigate all sports around the world”.
“WADA Compliance Review Committee “unanimous in its view that RUSADA should be declared non-compliant with immediate effect”, said a tweet on WADA’s official Twitter account. It’s clear it will take more than the $26 million that WADA operates on each year to do the sort of work being done by the independent commission probing corruption in the Russian track system.
“To put it in perspective, lots of people said, ‘You need to do more investigations, you need to be more efficient,”‘ Reedie said.
“There are going to have to be other sources of revenue”, Moses said.
Publication of the WADA report also saw the suspension of Moscow’s anti-doping laboratory, a situation Mutko said was jeopardising Russia’s ability to fight doping.
That’s a result that would cripple the lab’s chances at reinstatement and “would be like throwing the baby out with the bathwater”, said Dick Pound, the author of the independent commission’s report.
Russian Federation is one of six countries ruled to be in breach of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s codes, BBC Sport’s Katie Gornall reports.
It has also suspended the membership of the Russian Athletic Federation, which the country’s Olympic committee has promised to reform so that the national team could participate in the 2016 Rio Olympics.
The verification process will be discussed by the IAAF’s governing council next Thursday in Monaco, with follow-up consultations with WADA.
“We are saddened by the WADA decisions but respect them”.
Russia’s wasn’t the only anti-doping agency declared noncompliant.
Along with Argentina, Ukraine, Bolivia, Andorra and Israel, it has been deemed “non-compliant” by Wada.
And Kenya is under the microscope. 15 Kenyan athletes have already been banned by the IAAF for doping. I will now write to all public authority stakeholders and ask them to make further contributions specifically to fund anti-doping investigations.
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The panel will assess the reforms to clean up the Russian athletics federation, known as ARAF.
