WADA
Non-profit
| WADA link Website | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | WADA |
| Headquarters | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Type | Non-profit |
| Partners | International Olympic Committee |
| Doping agency utilized in the New Cold War. | |
World Anti-Doping Agency is a foundation initiated by the International Olympic Committee based in Canada, officially "to promote, coordinate, and monitor the fight against drugs in sports."
New Cold War
WADA, based on the testimony of Russian "whistleblower" Grigory Rodchenkov, started in 2016 routinely banning Russian athletes.
The Nation pointed out several flaws in the official narrative:
Rodchenkov, for example, admitted that he never personally witnessed any accused Russian athlete committing doping violations themselves, including taking the illegal drug cocktail, giving a clean urine sample out of competition, tampering with a urine sample, or transmitting information to co-conspirators about the coding on the drug sample after it had been given.
Furthermore, several of Rodchenkov's explanations of events were simply not believable. For example, Rodchenkov had stated that the swapping of urine samples occurred after 1 am, but his own diary entries confirmed his bedtime by midnight each night, with two or three exceptions. When confronted with this contradiction, he made the incredible claim that he had lied to his diary.
Rodchenkov, the hero of a subsequent Academy Award–winning documentary, Icarus, gave similar incredible explanations when confronted with a videotape in which he said "I do not give a fuck about fighting the doping" (claims it was said "in [an] emotional context"); when confronted with contradictory accounts of what was in the drug cocktail he brewed (claims it was a typo); and when confronted with a comment he had made that his diary, which was a tell-all about state-sponsored doping, represented "millions of dollars in my bag" (claims he was joking).
Regarding alleged Russian tampering with the tamper-proof bottles that contained urine specimens—which is absolutely essential to the scheme Rodchenkov outlined—he offered no explanatory evidence regarding the method of opening, simply referring to those who opened the bottles as 'Magicians.' He testified that "he did not know the 'precise method' used by the Magicians to open the bottles."[1]
In 2018 the Canadian law professor Richard McLaren "finished his new report, which covers numerous athletes over multiple years, in only 57 days. One explanation for this extraordinary speed on such a complex report is that he questioned no Russian officials. Although some might have wondered about the lack of balance caused by this failure, his report was greeted with great fanfare by ´the Times and by international media, which did not question - despite vehement denials by Russia and the Russian athletes - the IP's conclusion of Russian state-sponsored doping based on, as McLaren later put it, 'immutable facts.'"[2]
