Why The World Anti-Doping Agency Must Be Replaced

By Ronald Katz (September 20, 2018, 3:57 PM EDT) -- The World Anti-Doping Agency ended Russia's suspension for doping on Thursday at a meeting of WADA's executive committee in the Seychelles. The ending of the suspension has caused an uproar among athletes and drug prevention administrators because of what they believe is too lenient punishment for the major infraction of manipulating drug tests so that Russian athletes can improve their performances, in particular at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Whether one agrees with that criticism, there is a much deeper problem that has not been reported: WADA enabled the Russian doping by not suspending the Russian anti-doping laboratory in 2013 at a disciplinary hearing brought because WADA had numerous reports that the Russian laboratory, which was then run by Grigory Rodchenkov, had gone rogue, a fact that Rodchenkov now admits....

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