WADA suspend Russian anti-doping agency and declare Argentina, Bolivia

On Wednesday, Olympic legend Ed Moses added his voice to calls for Russian track and field athletes to be barred from next year’s Olympics over the scandal.

Leaders from the World Anti-Doping Agency met Wednesday to decide whether to ban Russia’s anti-doping operation in the wake of the report about corruption in the country’s track and anti-doping programs.

In a statement released after the Colorado meeting today, WADA President Sir Craig Reedie said, “The message from today’s seminal WADA Foundation Board Meeting is clear: there will now be greater focus on strengthening compliance work so that all anti-doping organizations worldwide are held accountable to deliver robust anti-doping programs”.

Pavel Kolobkov, deputy sports minister for Russian Federation, said implementing the criteria that WADA will set will allow Russian Federation to improve its anti-doping efforts.

WADA representatives from New Zealand and Europe agreed with Scott’s proposal. Russian Federation was suspended from the IAAF on Friday for being suspected of state-sponsoring doping according to Russian Federation Beyond the Headlines.

Meanwhile it is being reported by the British Broadcasting Corporation that many athletes had “suspicious doping profiles” at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

Pound said the investigation “shows that WADA is capable of undertaking investigations on an worldwide basis”. He said WADA had to figure out how to pay for expanding its scope.

“They’re saying, ‘Why not all sports?'” said Scott, a Canadian Olympic cross-country skiing champion and also the chair of WADA’s athlete committee.

Science, a few argue, can lead the way in achieving clean, or at least cleaner, sport.

Non-compliance means failing to respond to WADA’s requests for information and as a effect, organisations can not operate until they become compliant.

Mwangi said Athletics Kenya (AK) and the IAAF have held talks on setting up a lab but that it was proving tricky to find a facility sophisticated enough to pass WADA’s stringent testing conditions.

This week, with WADA holding meetings in Colorado Springs, Colo., there have been calls for a broader investigation of all Russian sports.

Along with Argentina, Ukraine, Bolivia, Andorra and Israel, it has been deemed “non-compliant” by Wada.

Argentina, Bolivia and Ukraine were using non-accredited laboratories to test blood and urine samples.