Antidopingarbejde is a bad joke, and Russia has once again managed to make world trainers well and truly a laughing stock.
Exactly as expected, Russia has not lived up to the requirements of the world anti-doping agency, WADA, has presented to Putin’s eliteudøvere can once again become a fully valid member of the international sport movement.
set a deadline 31. december 2018. Should the Russian authorities to comply with two requirements.
* Russia should admit that members of the government have been a part of the dopingprogrammet, as it was revealed in 2015.
* Russia should allow WADA full access to dopingprøverne from dopinglaboratoriet in Moscow, as The Russian anti-doping agency, RUSADA, sitting on. It is estimated that there are stored 9000 suspicious samples that should be checked for.
RUSADA director, Yury Ganus, around christmas, in desperation, begged the Russian government to comply with the requirements of WADA, it helped not in the least.
Interesting and very telling is it, that neither WADA or the IOC has reacted violently opposite the russians. But it aligns fine with the line, the two organizations have a long run. WADA and the IOC will close the russians back in the heat, even if Putin’s people have recognised the scale of the country’s state-run dopingprogram, which was unveiled in 2015.
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RUSADA is thought to store on the 9000 suspicious samples. Photo: AP
president, Thomas Bach, and his colleague in WADA, Craig Reedie, has since the first revelations made the effort, that Russia should get rid as cheaply as possible.
Craig Reedie said in October in an interview with CNN, that it was a pity that it was Russia who fell in the investigative system, as WADA has built up. Russia is in many ways a strong nation. Perhaps the strongest, he said.
said Putin’s close friend, the IOC-president Thomas Bach that Russia has been punished enough, and thus indicated that the russians should be allowed to put up at the OLYMPIC games in Tokyo next year. Regardless of whether they comply with the requirements of the WADA.
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Thomas Bach and Putin has for many years had a close relationship. Photo: AP
First at a meeting in mid-January, WADA will consider how the situation with Russia needs to be tackled, but wait me there will be a soft landing. And so it will continue, if there is no change in the distribution of power in the WADA, which is owned half by the IOC and half of the authorities.
however, it is the IOC that is running the show and thus also dopingarbejdet of the track. Only by completely or partially removing the IOC-the people, and replace them with independent experts, will WADA be able to regain a form of credibility.
in november WADA will have a new leader, and this time it is a representative of the myndighedssiden, who are to be elected to president. It promises to be a tough election between the two candidates, Norwegian Linda H. Helleland and Polish Witold Banka.
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Helleland will be the new WADA president. Photo: AP
* Linda H. Helleland, 41, is a children and minister for gender equality in Norway and the vice-president of the WADA.
* Witold Banka, 34, is the Polish minister for sports and has previously been on the Polish national team in athletics.
want to take over after the English Craig Reedie, 77, who has been president since 2013. Reedie has been controversial. He is a member of the IOC and has been almost intimately friendly towards Russia after the revelations of statsorganiseret doping.
Both Banka and Helleland will have changes in WADA, but they are strongly disagree about the methods. As the vice president has Helleland been fiercely critical of the Craig Reedie and his handling of Russia.
by contrast, adopt a more conciliatory and diplomatic line. He criticizes no one, but calls for unity and cooperation. In many ways, the sounds he as a man, that could come from the IOC camp, and then we just far.
