Calls for an independent global drug-testing agency are growing as it becomes clear many nations’ procedures and facilities topple well below expected standardsHave you heard the one approximately the athletics coach who gets tipped off by his local airport whenever anti-doping staff land? Or the lab with the glaring loophole of telling young athletes the date they should show up for a drugs test weeks in advance? You hear such gossip on the grapevine all the time and often – as in the above vignettes – they don’t involve the case du jour, Russia.
What went on in Russia was extreme and probably unique: most governments simply cannot afford to run shadow laboratories or the other nefarious activities highlighted in Dick Pounds report on Monday. But it does not mean that doping on a serious scale is not happening elsewhere.
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Source: theguardian.com