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Meanwhile, Dick Pound, the former president of the World Anti-doping agency (WADA) has written an editorial piece challenging international authorities to find a way to effectively fight doping claiming many key stakeholders are deliberately ignoring the problem.
“All of the stakeholders in sport are fully aware of the high prevalence of doping and the dangers it presents, both to the health of athletes and to the integrity of competitions,” writes Pound. He believes that failure to address the issues jeopardizes sport at large as private sponsors are likely to walk away.
Pound, a Canadian, is widely seen as one of the strongest voices condemning doping; he was very critical of Lance Armstrong prior to the cyclist’s confession. He also previously served as VP of the International Olympic committee (IOC).
December 26th, 2013 at 10:12 pm
Right, because Russia is the only country to have a problem with doping. Two cyclists doping? At this point, this shouldn’t be a surprise, even to Dick Pound (what an awesome name, eh?). Cycling and doping are pretty much synonymous. Whatever happened to all those Jamaican sprinters that tested positive right before the Track and Field World’s earlier this Summer? Not a word about them. Notice how pretty much all the top sprinters have been found guilty, but not Usain Bolt, the darling of T&F. I am sure, like Lane Armstrong and Carl Lewis before him, the powers of the sport are protecting him, still using that money, ads and fame as leverage. Once he goes, T&F will take as big of a fall as cycling did after all those positive tests (especially from the Uniballer). Getting back to the Russians, it’s only news because they are Russian, and Sochi is 1 1/2 away, otherwise this would be a non-story, especially as the NYT rarely writes these sort of columns. Sensationalism, bias and laziness. That pretty much describes modern day mainstream media.
December 29th, 2013 at 12:45 pm
I would also remind the world that Dick Pound, as the head of WADA, during the Salt Lake Olympics took Beckie Scott to task when she suggested it was common knowledge to the athletes that there were dopers competing. He was less than civil in his response to such suggestion-demanding proof. The final proof was of course in the ultimate ‘pudding’, where not only did Ms Scott win three medals in the same race as the dopers (Danilova and Lazutina) fell but the ultimate findings on Johann Mulhegg- and his use of darbepoetin. Wish he’d have been as strident then as now.
December 29th, 2013 at 9:58 pm
Davor, right on—there are so many of the leaders out there that are complicit for all these years—-I started to clue in at the FIS Worlds in Falun in ’74 when the results were so construed toward the Iron Curtain countries. Only three of the first 12 ladies in the ladies 10km were non-commies and one of those three was Martha Rockwell. I started talking a bit and found an ally in Kurt Matz, the ski rep for Kniessl—a former Checho who lived in Austria.He had stories.
Pound with his article was looking for names—if I had the what I would call the unofficial word on the street—I have to believe the big boys like Samaranch and Hodler and other people at FIS and the UCI guys for the last 30 yrs at the least knew what was going on—how and what they were willing to do to hide it—–very few people know. Like Pound said—over 700 tests for Lancie-boy and nothing came up—come—-on—-MAN!!!!
“That pretty much describes modern day mainstream media” as you said, and a great percentage of main stream sport administrators, also.