The WADA foundation board suspended Kenya’s anti-doping agency after determining a new law passed to combat doping there fell short.
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Bobsledder Alexander Zubkov and cross-country skier Alexander Legkov tell state TV that they were clean during the Olympics. Since the London Games, 40 Kenyans have been banned, all but five of them caught outside their home country. Kenya tied Jamaica for the most gold medals, with seven, at last years world championships.
Rodchenkov says that Russia’s sports ministry actively guided the doping effort, though the Russian sports minister described the Times’ inquiries as baseless, and said they were an attempt to discredit Russian sports in advance of the Rio Olympics. A shell company in Singapore is increasingly emerging at the heart of what French pro…
“As in all cases of non-compliance, WADA will now hand the decision over to its stakeholders, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and UNESCO for their consideration and action”.
The Tokyo Olympic bid committee has acknowledged making payments to a firm in Singapore in relation to the city’s bid to host the 2020 Games, saying they were legitimate consulting fees.
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Throughout the meeting, there were calls for increased funding for WADA and for a beefed-up investigative arm that would allow the agency to pursue evidence of cheating instead of waiting for the media and others to uncover it. And the sports marketing consultant identified by WADA as the account holder has been closely tied to the family that ruled track and field for 16 years via the now-disgraced Lamine Diack.
The CCES, which is independent of the Canadian Olympic Committee, oversees drug testing mostly of Olympic and Canadian university and college athletes. He is under investigation in France for suspected corruption, barred from leaving the country while the magistrates’ probe continues.
Grigory Rodchenkov revealed to the New York Times how Russian Federation tampered with urine samples to guarantee clean tests for its athletes during the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi. Olympic gold medalist Beckie Scott gave a speech Thursday, May 12, 2016, in Montreal that reminded all the leaders at the World Anti-Doping Agency why they’re doing all this work.
Russian anti-doping experts and members of the intelligence services secretly broke into tamper-proof bottles to replace urine samples tainted by performance-enhancing drugs with clean urine collected months earlier, the Times reported, citing Rodchenkov.
Grigory Rodchenkov, who ran the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games antidoping test laboratory, said he developed a three-drug cocktail of banned substances that he provided to dozens of Russian athletes.
Rodchenkov, who became director of Russia’s anti-doping laboratory in 2005, was forced to resign from his position by officials last November upon the publication of Wada’s report into “state-sponsored doping” among the country’s track and field athletes. He suggests everything be filmed to “ensure the integrity of the examination in an open and transparent way to the public”.
Kenyan athletes also hit back at the ruling, with world champion javelin thrower Julius Yego insisting the current anti-doping regime was yielding results. It showed that of 247 tests, 99 failed because they were unable to locate the athletes.
Scott’s husband Justin Wadsworth coached Canada’s cross-country ski team in Sochi. He went to Los Angeles. It left him with minimal use of his arms and no independent movement below his chest.
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WADA president Craig Reedie answered by reiterating a point hes made all along: WADA doesnt have final say. Instead of kickoffs, the ball will be placed at the 35-yard line to start each half and following scores in the Tiny Mite (ages 5-7), Mitey Mite (7-9) and Junior Pee Wee (8-10) divisions.
