Especially typing with one finger.
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The Russian anti-doping agency has recently published the names of athletes tested , together with the individual number of tests.
Seems ASADA may be less transparent than RUSADA in this respect.
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There are many sides to Bruce.
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Reportedly the Hungarian Athletics Association accepted the claims of an Olympic gold medallist hammer thrower ( Pars) that he did not ingest a WADA banned drug for performance enhancement and that the substance was not capable of performance enhancement.
He still got pinged under WADA rules, but seems to have been given a discounted sanction. No-one is calling him a drug cheat and it shows WADA up. Will WADA appeal ?
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Patrick Smith has worn out more sets of AFL kneepads than ‘Sarah’.
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In case there is someone who has the time and drive to seek to identify Eddie McGuire’s infamous ‘Sarah’, engaging this professional investigation company, which has connections within the media and television industry, might be a good start.
https://www.onlineinvestigations.com.au/
Crowd funding might also be an option.
Just saying…
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only if McDevitt goes to visit them with money to take on the case !!!
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what do they charge??
WADA has formally acknowledged the decision of a French Court that it had breached the presumption of innocence of an IAAF official . WADA and Pound were both fined.
No such presumption of innocence for athletes that they did not use performance enhancing drugs. If only an Australian Court could make such a finding in regard to ASADA, WADA, Fahey and Howman, as well as for breaches of Australian privacy law. Yet ASADA claims privacy on behalf of athletes and won’t release any paperwork relevant to the ADRVP decision on the E34.
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The arrogance of CAS. This, from a 2015 report involving one of the E34 arbitrators ( CAS 2014/A/3561 & 3614- IAAF &WADA v Dominguez Azpelata &REFA):
“As an independent forum the CAS is not bound by the decisions of any other jurisdictional body. Further, as regards specifically the admissibility of evidence, a CAS panel is not bound by the rules of evidence and may inform itself in such a manner as the arbitrators think fit.”
The report goes on to suggest that, by signing DCF forms, athletes have freely consented to arbitration.
In other words, CAS is the law of the jungle.
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Exactly what occured with EFC34
Banned them on the "vibe"not actual evidence.
They just do what WADA wants it seems
What a farken farce
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Sounds like they’ve reserved the right to make it up as they go.
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Well that’s about the only thing they’re up front about.
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More like CAS reserves the right to make you guilty (or not guilty) if it is so inclined despite any facts or evidence to the contrary.
Bit like the way the AFL runs our game - it can make Cotchin “not guilty” so he can play in a GF despite the fact that similar situations had attracted penalties all year.
And like how the AFL decided that Essendon was “guilty” in the drugs saga before one minute of investigation - then spent the following months concocting evidence (and leaving out the bits that might compromise what they were doing) around AOD 964 firstly and then Thymosin/TB-4.
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As to CAS proclaimed independence:
The head of CAS is an IOC VP ( Coates). WADA is run by a cashed up IOC, but in the Essendon case, got funded by an Australian government agency to prosecute.
Australian Rules is not an Olympic sport and as it is not associated with an international federation, it belongs in the “other” category by WADA. Way down the pecking order and no attention given to what may or not be performance enhancing or health affecting in that sport.
Some WADA scientists ( including Handelsman) participate in UNESCO work.
No conflict of interest there Ministers Hunt and McKenzie and no relevance to your consideration of integrity in sport? Obviously not if you have a former WADA chief involved in the review.
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Any updates on Bruce’s foi request and the extent of Taylor’s trial?
But Strands of fairy floss in a cable = proof, depending whether you are in Switzerland or not.
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What gets me is that people such as Jack Anderson and Howard Opie , who hold down respected positions in Melbourne Universities, never raise questions about the approach of CAS, which are inconsistent with general principles of international law, including predictability and consistency and procedural fairness and equity . Nor do they question conflicts of interest.
Perhaps it is because they have conflicts of interest lured by their positions on the CAs arbittrators list.
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The AFL can’t dismiss anyone who knows where the bodies are
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There are so many strands in the cable of ASADA/WADA/CAS collusion and corruption in regard to the conduct of the investigation and the prosecution of the 34 now, it is more than enough to leave a reasonable person comfortably satisfied of their guilt.
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