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Anti-doping bodies, like the ITA here, are damned if they do or damned if they don't. We rightly criticise them for not testing thoroughly and then, if they do, it is supposedly a "commercial matter" about justifying their budget nytimes.com/athletic/7464267…
As well as testing positive for Human Growth Hormone and EPO, Blessing Okagbare also deliberately missed a drugs test in 2021. She claimed not to hear testers... but leaked WhatsApp messages, later seized by FBI, showed it was due to fear of likely positive 2-
For example, sprinter Blessing Okagbare claimed not to hear testers after missing a test on June 13, 2021. But leaked WhatsApp messages, seized by FBI on her return from Tokyo Olympics, prove she deliberately missed it due to fear drugs would be detected. /2
Very revealing from @letsrundotcom how eventual Chicago Marathon winner Jacob Kiplimo was seemingly warned - by figures including a Nike exec - not to engage with question about the huge numbers of doping cases from athletes under his agent Federico Rosa letsrun.com/news/2025/10/wha…
Interesting story... A day off and during the close season are potentially the most likely times players would test positive, so it makes a mockery of a functioning whereabouts deterrent thetimes.com/sport/football/…
Here is the original 2014 ARD @HajoSeppelt documentary exposing Russian state doping featuring Yuliya and Vitaly Stepanov and their brave undercover recordings. WADA helped them move to USA afterwards but seem to have now abandoned them youtube.com/watch?v=iu9B-ty9… /1
Latest ARD report: "Stepanovs’ cry for help. Forgotten and facing an uncertain future". Tough emotional story about situation unchanged for over a decade sportschau.de/stepanovs-cry-…
"Only when a PED scandal becomes large enough to affect the retail sales of the shoe companies or negatively impact title sponsorship PR will anything get done, says one long-time sport insider with experience in dealing with all entities involved." tonireavis.com/2025/07/17/be…
The individual cannot be named for legal reasons relating to expiry of statute of limitations but stands accused of being a key figure in the doping ring orchestrated by Erfurt doctor "Mark S"... 2/
Applications have opened for WADA Presidential/VP elections next year. IOC have come straight out and backed (widely criticised) incumbents before anyone else has even announced plans to run.
Democracy sport style olympics.com/ioc/news/commun…
Strong rebuke from national anti-doping bodies, including in France + South Africa, over limited mandate and superficial nature of WADA's Cottier report and how WADA's leadership are increasingly "impervious to criticism or constructive engagement".
sportschau.de/wada-leadershi…
An English subtitled version of latest ARD story about Chinese affair has appeared on YouTube here.
Story with Peter Wozny, @hajoseppelt @joergww youtube.com/watch?v=UCMIm3FD…
This is so embarrassing. Cult of personality alive and well in Olympic sports after a ridiculous 31 years as President of modern pentathlon world body
On China: Despite repeatedly saying they had no reason to suspect delibrate doping, WADA investigations head Günter Younger wrote in 2020 about historic use of "allegedly undetectable levels" of TMZ in China.
He has not mentioned this report at all publicly in recent weeks
"WADA's latest Chinese leniency". New information on the latest cases where swimmers from China were silently cleared of doping due to unproven contamination... sportschau.de/olympia/der-na… 1/
Important details here about British taekwondo star Jade Jones being cleared of refusing drug test. Comment by chef de mission on the timeframe seems quite misleading…and makes quite a difference given how quickly some substances become undetectable dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympi…
Being forced to comply with demeaning urine tests is a big sacrifice for athletes. German fencer @lea_kruegi takes us through how these tests work and why she does not believe testing is equal for all youtube.com/watch?v=g-yB9UIx… 15/
Another good example is the IRMS test to detect testosterone etc, cited by WADA as test with "highest proportion" of positives.
2012 Report called for it to be performed more. In 2013, it was performed 6085 times. In 2022, only 4602 times, despite more tests in total. Why? 14/
2012 Report authors on "Lack of Effectiveness of Testing", Richard Pound/David Howman, remain concerned:
Howman:"They only catch dopey dopers...there are at least 300,000 tests a year and only 1% positives. You wouldn't survive in corporate world with success rate like that." 13/
A lack of money is often cited as excuse for poor testing. But, our research found that less than 1% of estimated total money in the global sports industry is spent on anti-doping. Is it really a lack of money or a lack of willingness? 12/
Too often, athletes are not even tested for key substances. In many sports where these substances are used, such as football, a @wada_ama document only recommends 10% of samples being analysed for EPO and HGH. If you don't look you will not find... youtube.com/watch?v=Rgzyh3l7… 11/
The @aiu_athletics, who caught Blessing Okagbare, allowed us a glimpse of their testing programmes in Kenya. To show breadth of work, with Kenyan Govt, to try to reduce the problem there. To test in a targeted way rarely seen in other sports/countries youtube.com/watch?v=yqrq-Ybt… 10/
