Drug-free Games ‘an Olympic-sized deception’

An international racing official has called on Olympic officials to expose the names of athletes given exemptions to role drugs inwards London.

The president of Racing Commissioners International, Ed Martin, noted that unopen to athletes scheduled to compete at the London Games were permitted  to compete alongside performance-enhancing drugs inwards their systems.

He called on Games officials to disclose the names of the affected athletes, the competitions they are in, together with the drugs inwards their systems.

Martin, inwards testimony on July 13, told a U.S. Senate Committee that the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has a little-known policy that permits Olympic athletes to compete alongside a multifariousness of functioning enhancing substances inwards their bodies, something that is non allowed inwards Equus caballus racing except for a handling to mitigate bleeding.

Calling it an “Olympic-sized deception”, Martin said: “Olympic fans won’t know who, inwards what events, or the drugs inwards role equally at that topographic point is no disclosure.”

The perception, he said, is that the Olympics are drugs free. Media accounts bring largely ignored Wada’s mandate of a procedure where athletes tin obtain a therapeutic role exemption allowing them to compete alongside prohibited performance-enhancing substances.

An Olympic athlete is complimentary to submit an application supported yesteryear their doctors together with approvals are largely controlled yesteryear his or her habitation Olympic committee.

“If this touchstone were applied inwards Equus caballus racing, 1 could debate it would live on comparable to allowing a Equus caballus possessor to grant an exemption for unopen to of his horses to run on drugs,” Martin said.

According to the 2010 Annual Report posted on the website of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), the virtually requested exemption was for beta-2 agonists (clenbuterol), followed yesteryear outright stimulants.

Exemptions were requested for anabolic agents, corticosteroids, narcotics, hormones, together with platelet-rich plasma. Of those applications considered, 155 were approved together with 43 denied.

“In Equus caballus racing at that topographic point is no procedure to allow for therapeutic role exemptions,” Martin said.

“The trainers of horses flora to bring such substances inwards their organization on raceday are flora to live on inwards violation together with sanctioned.

“The exclusively exception [in America] is for a therapeutic medication to mitigate the effect of do induced pulmonary hemorrhage.

“Unlike the Olympics, at that topographic point is disclosure inwards racing together with horses together with hence treated are listed inwards the computer program for everyone to see.”

In addition, Section 2.4 of the World Anti-Doping Code permits athletes to fille a drug exam without consequence. It is exclusively later the 3rd fourth dimension soul has missed a exam that it becomes an actual violation. In Equus caballus racing, no race-related tests are allowed to live on missed or declined.

“In 2010 U.S. racing regulators sent over 330,000 samples to the testing laboratory. 99.5 per cent were flora to bring no prohibited total despite racing regulators testing for to a greater extent than substances at deeper levels than whatever other sport. When a medication violation was found, the total was generally therapeutic together with theoretically mightiness bring been allowed if racing emulated the Wada Olympic standards,” Martin said.

According to the USADA’s annual study for 2010 at that topographic point were 38 drug dominion violations out of 8031 tests. That per centum of violators is roughly the same equally inwards Equus caballus racing.

“The large exception is that racing does non bring an undisclosed exemption for therapeutic functioning enhancements together with hence non everything existence used inwards the Olympics is disclosed,” he said.

“When you lot expect at the facts, the perception that adjacent week’s games volition live on drug complimentary together with Equus caballus racing is drug ridden is an Olympic-sized deception.

“The challenge is existent for both, precisely Equus caballus racing’s transparency together with difficult business against virtually all functioning enhancing therapeutics may explicate why unopen to mean value racing’s work is bigger than it is,” he concluded.

 

 

 

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