August 11th, 2008
Missing The Target
John Fahey has some inverted logic…
“Will the World Anti-Doping Agency ask that the International Olympic Committee throw cycling out of its Olympic Games? World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) chief John Fahey stated his organisation might recommend that cycling and weightlifting be excluded because of doping problems.” [cyclingnews.com]
How about WADA starts insisting that other sports start showing the rigour that cycling now does?
This is from the Wikipedia* page about Operation Puerto. To mitigate that I’ve addded links to the referenced articles.
“Whilst the clients of Dr Fuentes include a number of high profile tennis and football stars [cyclingnews.com], media attention has focused almost exclusively on the relatively small number of professional road cyclists that were named in the investigation [El Pais (google translated)].”
This was also repeated by cyclingnews.com:
“On July 5, 2006, Fuentes was quite indignant that only the names of cyclists have been released, and stated that he had also worked with tennis and football players.”
The BBC has some figures for the major sports**, including showing just how lax dope testing is in football:
“You would have to play professional football in England for 432 years before having a 50% chance of being tested at a match.”
So come on Mr Fahey, let’s see the names of those Spanish tennis and football stars involved in Operation Puerto, and let us see how much effort those sports put into drug testing.
The Daily Telegraph was on cyclings side too - though they have recently pulled the article Peddling the Lie That Only Cyclists Cheat pointing out how lax other sports are.
As a cyclist myself I am pleased that WADA targets drug cheats in my sport. But how about tackling other targets too?
* i.e. it’s probably about as accurate as The Sun
** those it can be arsed to televise.
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