Outstanding Doperin: 800-meter Olympic champion Sawinowa
The already massive doping scandal in the Russian Athletics is probably far greater than previously known. Then let Interview-looking statements include from two of the three participating investigators of the World Anti-Doping Agency WADA. “If we give this information in the world, there is a wow factor to give,” said Dick Pound, the head of the Investigation Commission, the British “Independent” a following even in December or January second report of his team.
The German Wada investigators Günter Younger recorded against the “Sueddeutsche Zeitung” a horror what the conditions on which he met in his research in Russia. “The fraud cultural uprooting will take decades. So you have to be fair and give the country time, “said the police officer of the Bavarian State Office of Criminal Investigation. “Chance has even been drugged while we were there.” One respondent told the Wada-investigators in the face: “No matter what you’re doing here, it will not change anything anyway.”
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In the opinion of the Younger scandal is by no means limited to the sport of athletics and the country Russia. He had only “seen in a small part of the sport,” explained the 48-year-old. “Only when we see that the former chief physician Portugalov supervised not only athletes, but also biathletes and swimmers – why should he have done it differently there?” Younger called for significantly increased funding for Wada and hiring significantly more full-time investigators. “When I read that the Wada with $ 26 million has to get per year, while the IOC once sufficient billion – as I hope the Agency will be upgraded,” he said. “And then they have to run first thing to Kenya, very quickly. With the same effort, we have operated in Russia. “In his opinion, stood” the credibility of the sport is at stake. I see in Kenya some evidence, as I would as Wada immediately say. That should be our next big goal “like discus gold medalist Robert Harting had already claimed in an interview with this newspaper.
© AP Richard Pound: “If we give this information in the world, there will be a wow factor”
Richard Pound: “If we give this information in the world , there will be a wow factor “
Younger as the previous Wada boss Pound and the Canadian Sportrechtler Richard McLaren at that Commission, which investigated the ARD revelations of systemic doping in Russian athletics on behalf of WADA. In early November, the Commission published a shocking report on a deep-rooted doping culture, involved in addition to coaches, athletes and doctors also state authorities and control laboratories.
“You can just sit out many scandals”
As a result, the IAAF suspended the Russian athletes at least for now from all major events like the Olympic Games 2016 are also meeting this Wednesday and Thursday in Frankfurt Main representatives of WADA and the Russian Sports Ministry. But the place of the meeting and possible results are to be initially kept secret.
Pound goes after all assume that the Russian athletes will start at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Him and Younger one a deep distrust of the large sporting federations. “You can just sit out many scandals,” Younger said. “The doping issue is an unpleasant, does not want to have. This is the denial of the obvious. Some notables living in a world of which they believe that they are untouchable in it. “
© dpa Sport sociologist Emrich: “. Investments in the semblance of honesty rewarding than the honesty itself”
Sport sociologist Emrich: “investment more rewarding than the honesty even in the semblance of honesty. “
He was important that the longtime IAAF chief Lamine Diack “was prosecuted by the judiciary and banned not only from any ethics committee for 80 days. The one night that has spent in prison is to have left an impression. “
“investments in the semblance of honesty”
The former head of the drug Dezernats Interpol described specific cases that he had experienced in its investigations. In the World Indoor Championships 2015 in Prague as he had a Russian athlete presented as Wada representative. The’ve only cried: “I do not see you, I’m not listening to you,” said Younger
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The sports sociologist and former vice president of the German Athletics Association, Eike Emrich is, assuming “that absolute excellence and honesty rule partially. The International Sport sold directly observable peak performance and faith in the not directly visible Doping freedom, “he told the newspaper” Die Welt “(Wednesday). “Obviously, investments are currently in the semblance of honesty rewarding than the honesty itself.”
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