General Assembly in Prague was an opportune venue for global Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach to drive home his latest idea to fund an intelligence testing unit that would reinforce the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
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Two Russian athletes, suspended from worldwide competition after a report on doping, have said they will bring a libel suit against the whistleblower.
Russian sports authorities have remained adamant that the country’s track and field athletes will be at the Olympics, pledging to restore the country’s IAAF membership within three months.
ARAF’s qualification for membership of the IAAF will be verified by the IAAF Inspection Team and based upon criteria which will be decided by the IAAF in consultation with WADA.
Russian Federation has effectively been banned from next year’s World Indoor Championships after it was confirmed.
“WADA recognizes that, to truly tackle the scourge of doping, the anti-doping community must further improve the approach that has been employed to date; and, above all, the resources that are now being attributed to it”, WADA president Craig Reedie said.
Coe said a set of five principles would help define the verification criteria of the IAAF inspection team, which will start work no later than January 1, 2016.
Track and field has been plunged into the worst crisis in its history over the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) report which uncovered a sophisticated state-supported doping program pervading all levels of Russian athletics. The unanimous decision, made in a WADA meeting in Colorado, U.S., now means Russian athletes will be tested by independent organizations.
WADA says more fact-finding is needed before deciding whether to expand its investigation into other sports. Then, like now, both sports had their share of doping troubles, and she knows the problems stretch beyond the athletes.
“I think people clearly understand no matter how uncomfortable Dick Pound’s report makes them feel that it was worth the effort and that we have to move forward because there are clear issues to be dealt with”.
As well as “establishing an effective and operational anti-doping framework in Russia”, the IAAF proposed “criminalizing the distribution and trafficking of prohibited substances under Russian law”. “But we are absolutely sure that clean athletes can’t lose their right to participate in sport events”.
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Israel, Andorra, Argentina, Bolivia and Ukraine were on Wednesday also found non-compliant of the Wada Code and can no longer conduct anti-doping programmes. This is in fact confusing, as ISO certification is all about management systems and has nothing whatsoever to do with WADA compliance.
