Doping

06.04.2022

Petr Lidov
Russian Federation

Petr Lidov

Does WADA need to be controlled by somebody else?

Does WADA need to be controlled by somebody else?
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- WADA is an international monopoly. Does anyone monitor it?

- Another question of current interest. Today there are no formula against doping terrorism, so the doping samples opening procedure is completely closed, so that the mass detection of prohibited drugs could not lead to the disruption of the competition and the mass suspension of athletes. What organization controls WADA`s honesty and professionalism in the opening and preservation of biosamples today, in the formation of prohibited lists and therapeutic exceptions, the work of the McLaren Commission, and so on? There are no such organizations. This leads to permissiveness with growing desires to use their "uniqueness". Therefore, the introduction of an external audit of WADA's activities is vital. For example, this function can be taken by the UN Human Rights Council or another organization with an impeccable international image. Each National Anti-Doping Agency or Regional Anti-Doping Laboratory is similarly controlled. Even allowance of the presence of periodically changing foreign representatives is possible. Then the activities of the entire anti-doping system will become transparent.

- But besides WADA, there are international sports federations that are subject to anti-doping powers. For example, it was the International Athletics Federation, not WADA, that suspended Russian athletes from the Rio Olympics.

- This is a well-thought-out tactic by WADA — to shift the entire responsibility for making a decision to others. If you are feeling guilty, then this is generally a favorite corruption move. Suppose that a whole team of one national federation has been caught doping. There are any number of such cases, but they are kept in the strictest confidence, since this is followed by the suspension of a national federation in a specific sport and the loss of large profits from television broadcasts, advertising ... Then the representative of the national federation colludes with the "responsible" person of the international federation. As a result of "bargaining", instead of eight caught, one or two are "showed", and the federation of a certain country is further kept on the hook. Therefore, there is no doubt that international sports federations should withdraw from the organizations that have anti-doping powers, which will minimize the possibility of political and other kinds of pressure, reduce the likelihood of creating corruption schemes between international and national sports organizations, and so on and so forth...


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