“This new report by the New York Times detailing how WADA lost track of cases and tests results, which comes on the heels of WADA’s failures on the TMZ cases, points to a system breakdown that should be of great concern to the entire Olympic movement. If anyone had doubts before, this latest revelation appears to show how necessary it is for all those who value fair sport to join the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and public authorities in stepping in to right the ship. When will enough be enough to take action to restore credibility to the global anti-doping system?
Right now, the global anti-doping movement is the most fractured and divided it’s been since WADA first opened its doors in 1999 and it has as little trust by athletes and the public as ever before. It starts and stops at the top. The rights of clean athletes and the Olympic brand itself continue to head toward the cliff unless athletes, the anti-doping community, and those with legal oversight engage to remedy the situation.
At the end of the day, WADA leaders should be investing time and resources into doing their job, instead of wasting taxpayer and sport money filing a retaliatory ethics complaint against the America’s Executive Committee representative and a frivolous lawsuit against a Code signatory like they have done in response to legitimate questions about their handling of the TMZ cases.”
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