Fair Play
International Athletics Federation (IAAF) may be in the center of the grand doping scandal after a German TV station ARD and the British newspaper The Sunday Times made statements that the hundreds of athletes took part in competitions, and even some of them have won, in spite of the “suspicious” test results. ARD also claimed that the situation is particularly bad in Russia. The IAAF and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has promised to quickly sort out what had happened. It is noteworthy that the scandal unfolds in the run-up to August 19 presidential elections IAAF.
The German TV channel ARD and the British newspaper The Sunday Times came out with material that questioned the purity of the results shown by hundreds of athletes from 2001 to 2012. And the German and British journalists refer to the data received from an anonymous source that gave them access to the database of the IAAF. Total power transmitted ARD and The Sunday Times information concerning 12 th. Of tests taken from the 5 th. Athletes. Basically it comes to athletes involved in disciplines that require endurance, namely, in the run – from a distance of 800 m and finishing a marathon.
Data provided by the source, were transferred to two Australian experts on doping – Eshdenu Michael and Robin Parisotto, who concluded that the tests 800 athletes suspicious. As noted by Mr. Eshden, “test scores are very characteristic.” Based on this, Australian experts have suggested that for the aforesaid period of 146 medals (including 55 gold) World Championships and the Olympics were awarded to athletes who used doping. “In one case, the entire podium occupied athletes who, in my opinion, possibly on a particular segment of the career used doping,” – said Michael Eshden.
add, that ARD would always paid special attention to the Russian athletics. The channel claims that over 80% of medals won by Russian athletes for the appointed time, were obtained on a background of suspicious tests. Author transmission Hajo Zeppelt directly accused four Russian runner – Anastasia Bazdyreva, Ekaterina Ekaterina Poistogova, Tatiana and Christina Myazin Ugarov. In particular, he lost on the computer what he believes, and audio recordings of conversations Myazin Ugarov in which athletes allegedly discussing the use of illicit drugs. True, the records do not hear Russian speech, as she hammered translation into German.
Recall that in December last year, Mr. Zeppelt already released on the ARD program “incriminating” Russian sport. Then, as his informants were athlete Yulia Stepanova and her husband Vitaly Stepanov – former employee of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency. In addition, allegations made and the former Russia coach Oleg Popov. To investigate allegations December ARD WADA has established an independent commission headed by former WADA president Dick Pound (its report to appear in the fall).
The latter claims ARD and The Sunday Times attentively WADA and the IAAF. The reaction is first contains more emotions than the words of the case. So, WADA President Craig Reedy named suspect very serious and said that will give the materials to the commission Dick Pound. But in the IAAF, for the order declaring an uncompromising fight against doping, made it clear that, firstly, the method of data analysis applied Eshdenom Michael and Robin Parisotto, is far from ideal, because they do not take into account that the athletes were tested over the years, what it is called in the dynamics. Secondly, IAAF reminded that no suspicion can not be evidence of a violation of the rules, as well as the fact that in this case we are talking about the use of confidential internal documents of the federation. As a consequence, IAAF reserves the right to protect both its own interests and the interests of the athletes all the legal methods.
It should also be noted that the scandalous information published in just two and a half weeks before the election, the new president of IAAF – they will take place on August 19 in Beijing. The current head of the Federation Lamine Diack leaves his post and apply for it in the past famous athletes Sergey Bubka and Sebastian Coe. It is noteworthy that the latter was the head of the organizing committee of the Games of 2012, during which, according to Australian experts, ten gold medals were awarded to athletes may have used doping.
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