![National camp action [P]...](https://skitrax.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Duluth-4-2019-08-08-at-10.46.51-AM-300x246.png)
![Matt Liebsch on the CXC Elite Team [P] CXC...](https://skitrax.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Matt-Liebsch-CXC.2-525x700.4-300x267.jpg)
![Dan LaBlanc [P]...](https://skitrax.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Dan-LaBlanc-img_1855.3.jpg)
April 06, 2011 – The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is considering ending its practice of collecting B samples in an effort to save both time and money according to AP. WADA director general David Howman notes that common criminals are being sent to jail based on one bodily sample, but doping cheats are getting an easier ride because both the A and B samples must test positive before they are tried for doping. “Sport really is on its own in collecting two samples,” he said.
Read more HERE.
April 7th, 2011 at 8:59 am
I can’t remember when a “B” sample has ever saved someone—-so, get rid of it—-the “A”ample says the skier or athlete has been cheating—-the burden shouldn’t be with WADA or which ever agency is doing the testing—-science wins over an athlete’s babble.
I want to see quicker justice and the athlet has the Court of Arbitration they can appeal to if they have some abberation of a situation that is of concern and possibly can prove their innocence. The Court is non-biased—prove your case, you go free! There is a system.
April 7th, 2011 at 11:37 am
How do you know the court isn’t biased?
April 7th, 2011 at 1:14 pm
I could be mistaken but wasn’t Vittoz cleared on a B sample before the World Champs in Germany (05), and Smigun too I think maybe around 2002. Of course Tyler Hamilton was also cleared when his B sample was destroyed in Athens before testing postive at the Veulta that fall. I would be pretty afraid of the slight chance of a false positive, keep the B sample and make the athlete pay for it’s testing.