The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) responds to a Reuters story of 7 August 2024 exposing a scheme whereby the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) allowed athletes who had doped, to compete for years, in at least one case without ever publishing or sanctioning their anti-doping rule violations, in direct contravention of the World Anti-Doping Code and USADA’s own rules.

And it just coincidentally happens that the US has been threatening WADA to withhold funding if they don’t do what the US wants (and this wasn’t the first time either, they also issued the same threats in 2019).

So weird how WADA then concludes that they “had no choice” but to turn a blind eye to US doping and stay silent about the US’s violations for “security reasons”.

  • 陆船。@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    Damn, it really is all projection. I was wondering where the Chinese doping witch hunt had come from. I guess I have my answer now.

  • darkcalling@lemmygrad.ml
    10·
    3 months ago

    I’m calling it now. The US is going to try something like straight up arresting the Chinese athletes at LA 2028 or threaten them with arrest ahead of time to keep them away to allow the US more medals. They’ll have this whole circus around it, indictments, a grand jury, all somber and shit. They’ll sanction and threaten their athletes, coaches, program directors and all kinds of other people involved and WADA won’t do shit at that point other than complain and allow it to happen because they don’t want to arrested. They’ll either pull it early to hammer on it for 12-24 months or do so after all the planning is done and they can’t possibly move the location or pull out of hosting in LA.

    What WADA should do is pressure the Olympic committee to force the US to either repeal their law giving them illegal extra-judicial jurisdiction or strip them of the right to host the Olympics. The US congress would never pass a law repealing it after a threat or demand of course so they’d simply lose the Olympics which is fine. They could also demand the Olympics pass a rule that says if a country (unnamed but US is obvious here) does this kind of extra-judicial shit around WADA they will be barred from participating and barred from collecting or winning any medals that year. That they could do even last moment but again they’d likely never challenge the US that way.

    • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.mlOP
      3·
      3 months ago

      Yeah but they won’t do that because they know where their bread is buttered. Plus the whole IOC is staffed essentially exclusively by westerners. The Olympics for all their pretense of internationalism are just an extension of western imperialism and chauvinism. They’re a way for the West to feel superior to everyone else, which is why they were so pissed at the USSR and other socialist countries back in the day doing so well and would always accuse them of doping, and now the same with China, but it’s always been projection.

      Frankly i think the global south needs to just make their own international sports competition. Let the West have the Olympics, who even cares anymore? It has become more evident than ever that the whole thing is a farce. They banned Russia and Belarus while allowing a regime that is literally committing a genocide live on camera to still participate. I’m sorry but that’s just not a stain that ever washes out. And i hope even if they reverse their decision on Russia that Russia refuses to participate in the next ones anyway.