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Olympic Summit To Reinforce IOC Wish To Have Anti-Doping Removed From FINA Brief
- Updated: September 28, 2016
The International Olympic Committee will reinforce its wish to have anti-doping removed from the auspices of international federations such as FINA in a move to a fully independent system when it meets sports leaders and the World Anti-Doping Agency bosses at the Olympic Summit in Lausanne on October 8.
The summit will start the process of thrashing out some of the details likely to form the building blocks for a new start to global anti-doping efforts in the wake of a quarter of a century of failure on the part of the IOC, FINA and other federations to deal with the systematic doping programs operated by the German Democratic Republic and related crisis points across many Olympic sports in the intervening years.
The past having been left to lie like a sleeping dog, the IOC, FINA and related bodies were forced to face doping demons in Rio this summer past in the wake of the Russian doping crisis.
Three WADA-commissioned reports pointed to state involvement and even backing for doping in sport. The last of the reports, from Prof. Richard McLaren, came with a recommendation for a blanket ban on Russia for Rio 2016. The IOC disagreed, handed responsibility for who could race and who could not back to international federations and the net effect in swimming was to have all swimmers with previous doping records but qualified for action in Rio back on their blocks.
Teams, athletes and coaches included, made their feelings known with booing and jeering aimed at those who raced with a doping record in tow. Criticism of those in charge of anti-doping was voiced by the most decorated Olympian all-time, Michael Phelps, his coach Bob Bowman, as well as Olympic champions Mack Horton and Lilly King, among others.
In terms of booing and jeering in Rio, none felt the heat more than California-based Russian Yuliya Efimova, …
