Gaining momentum new scandal around the world anti-doping Agency, which, as it turned out, let some of the American athletes to use banned substances. Moreover, according to experts, many of them prescribed for diseases that are in principle not compatible with sports.
Around the world are now discussing how this is possible, and urged WADA to reveal the principles by which it is guided such decisions. But while the Agency can only hear the accusations, and again to Russia, and again without evidence. Trying to explain the situation and the athletes that were involved in this story.
American athlete has admitted that, with the approval of the world anti-doping Agency took drugs banned for all the other athletes because he was a doctor. “Faster, higher, stronger” they do not just.
Tennis player Venus Williams wrote that “when she had serious medical problems, she strictly followed the rules of the organization, passed an independent medical examination”. The diagnosis of Williams did not disclose, but thanks to the hackers published documents, we can assume that her health is in critical condition. From 2010 to 2013 — and that’s just what’s known — she was taking such strong drugs as his hands on the oxy, dilaudid, prednisone, methylprednisolone, formoterol. The cocktail really was a miracle, allowing the player, despite severe disease, to win gold at the London Olympics.
“Formoterol is a long-acting drug, so its use in General is in itself prohibited. And how he got the lists therapeutic use is known only to the workers of the world anti-doping Agency as he was allowed. This again emphasizes that the organization shares all the good and bad, for the Russians and the Americans,” said associate Professor of management and marketing the sports industry REU them. Plekhanov Peter Lidov.
The eldest of the Williams sisters — Serena — is also supposedly suffering from, apparently, not less severe diseases, among others, used the triamcinolone. It is used in arthritis, rheumatism, lupus erythematosus, leukemia. Or prednisolone. It is prescribed for those who are struggling, for example, acute allergic reaction, asthma, tuberculosis or swelling of the brain. With such diagnoses is not something that can win international competitions, normal life difficult. And Serena, getting access to prohibited drugs, and was for three years the first racket of the world, and at the Games in London took two gold.
“The athlete who unlawfully takes this kind of drugs, gets the benefit of improving their functionality, enhancing aerobic endurance. That is, endurance is long, for example, in the third set, when occurs naturally fatigue,” says associate Professor of the Department of management and marketing the sports industry REU them. Plekhanov Peter Lidov.
But four-time Olympic champion in Rio in gymnastics Simon Bails your diagnosis to hide did not: “I Have attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity, because of his childhood I took medicines. Please know that I believe in a clean sport has always followed and will follow the rules.”
Hit the whole world at the Olympics in Brazil, his absolute calm, if not full detachment, Simon before the Game is formally failed a doping test. She had discovered metilfenidat is the strongest stimulant, psychotropic substance, in Russia, for example, is prohibited. But vada made it to the competition. However, athletes claim to be. They were allowed to.
“Athletes here can not be blamed. The fish rots from the head, and significantly. In elite sport in General can not be no special permissions because they distort the competitive process. If someone is sick with asthma or something else, he just can’t be involved in the sport, just as growth in half a meter cannot play basketball in the NBA,” writes “Tagesspiegel”.
From anti-doping Agency demand explanations.
“WADA should discuss taken in the organization of the procedure of issuing permits to use banned drugs for medical purposes. WADA must explain, with the permission of those athletes whose name is mentioned, or in General terms, without naming names, why the Agency allowed the use of specific illicit drugs,” writes “Bloomberg”.
But instead of explanations from the WADA — yet only accusations. Accustomed to Moscow and habitually unproven. The alleged Russian hackers broke into a database. The American media as usual picked the theme “the machinations of the evil Empire.” In Moscow all claims called “fictional”.
