Encouraging news for the embattled Wada president, Sir Craig Reedie, as the founder Wada president, Dick Pound, rides eye-catchingly to his defence. By way of recap, Russia last week missed the deadline to allow the World Anti‑Doping Agency access to the Moscow laboratory that was at the heart of its massive state-sponsored doping programme. This deadline was itself a bizarre act of faith on Wada’s part, given that Russia has failed to comply with two crucial recommendations of the McLaren report which uncovered the vast scale of their cheating.
Anyway, the predictably missed deadline has gone down like the proverbial sandwich with many national anti-doping authorities, as well as many clean athletes who increasingly despair of the notion that Wada is run in their interests, and not those of states to which Wada’s main funder, the IOC, may wish to cosy up.
Written by Marina Hyde
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2019/jan/09/wada-lynch-mob-dick-pound-craig-reedie under the title “The anti-Wada ‘lynch mob’ is not one Vernon Kay and co would recognise | Marina Hyde”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
