IOC Member Says Anti-Doping Rules are “Not Enforced”
Craig Reedie, IOC Member from Great Britain and World Anti-Doping Association (WADA) board member, said anti-doping rules that require athletes to inform drug testers of their whereabouts aren’t enforced in "half the countries in the world."
“The one issue the world of sport will want clearing up is in relation to whereabouts regulations for athletes.
"What has come out of Beijing is that half the world operates the system properly and half the world does not."
"This has come out of a survey done of national Olympic committees, and some are struggling with the whereabouts rules.
"We have to get the system to work properly so that everyone is operating in the same way.''
It is likely the issue will be discussed at the WADA Executive Committee and Foundation Board member meeting, set to take place this weekend in Montreal.
During these meetings, members representing governments of the world and the Olympic Movement will discuss the first official “Code Compliance Report.”
The WADA Code is designed to harmonize the world wide fight against doping.
Following a two-year review process, the Board will discuss the compliance report and determine which anti-doping organizations are not compliant. As required under the Code, the list of non-compliant organizations will be posted on WADA’s Web site on Nov. 25.
WADA President John Fahey will hold a press conference on Sunday, following the completion of the meetings.
Spain Owes Golds to Drugs
The wife of alleged doping doctor Eufemiano Fuentes said the success of the Spanish Olympic team in Barcelona was a result of her husband’s handiwork.
Cristina Perez, who was a Spanish Olympian at the Seoul Games, made the allegations to the Spanish publication La Provincia but said she would not give any specifics.
"I know what happened at Barcelona '92 and I'm a Pandora's Box that, if opened one day, could bring down sport," the AP reported. "But out of respect for my companions, the people who sacrificed so much, I'm staying quiet. Although I could speak out and ruin all those caught up in this little world."
Spain won 22 medals, including 13 gold in 1992, finishing sixth in the medal standings.
Fuentes was the doctor at the heart of cycling’s Operaction Puerto investigation that ultimately implicated more than 50 cyclists. He was one of five individuals arrested in the May 2006 arrests that sparked the investigation.
Perez claims the government was trying to make her husband a scapegoat.
"To call a doctor dedicated to sports science who has killed no one a criminal mastermind seems shameful to me," she said.
Pinter Banned for Turin Doping Scandal
Juergen Pinter, one of the cross-country skiers caught in the Austrian doping scandal in Turin, was banned from competition for four years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Pinter was already banned for life from the Olympics by the IOC.
The decision was announced on Friday, and backdated, meaning he will be able to compete again in 2010. The appeal was brought forward by the IOC and World Anti-Doping Agency after the ski federation cleared Pinter’s name.
CAS found that Pinter was "guilty of complicity in an anti-doping rule violation by other athletes."
During the Turin Olympics, Italian authorities raided the team home of the Austrian cross-country skiing and biathlon teams and found equipment for blood doping, which helps athletes in endurance sports like cross-country skiing.
Halkia Banned for Two Years
The Greek athletics federation SEGAS banned Fania Halkia for two years on Friday.
Halkia, her coach, and two other sprinters were charged with doping by Greek prosecutors. Halkia failed a drug test prior to the Beijing Olympics and was banned from competition.
Halkia, who won gold in the 400-meter hurdles in Athens, denies knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs.
Media Watch
Christine Brennan writes in USA Today that there needs to be greater legislative focus on doping.
The Times of London has a profile of drug cheat, Dwain Chambers on his life after doping.
In a profile in the Rochester, Minn. Post Bulletin Chris Sheppard says doping ruined his life.
Written by Ed Hula III.
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