tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post2719065252283449744..comments2023-10-06T03:21:26.130-07:00Comments on trust but verify: The Proposed WADA Code UpdateDBrowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718913310467614671noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-85135139493109721652007-01-17T13:29:00.000-08:002007-01-17T13:29:00.000-08:00The LA Times article (which I now need to register...The LA Times article (which I now need to register to look at, harumph) implied that the actual criticisms were available on line somewhere. Do you have a link for that? I'd love to see the criticisms for the testosterone test.<br /><br />tomThomas A. Finehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15734341507092908270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-89495415347231350672007-01-17T09:09:00.000-08:002007-01-17T09:09:00.000-08:00I'd say it demonstrates that WADA can change, in w...I'd say it demonstrates that WADA can change, in ways that Mr. Pound doesn't personally like, and that he's going away but not soon enough.<br /><br />What we have here are examples of complaints by heavy hitters enacting what could be seen as a regression -- it will not be OK for snowboarders and basketball players to smoke dope; while managing to nail more defenseless folks with four year bans.<br /><br />This is the face of "reform", which doesn't always mean "improve" -- it literally means re-form, to change shape.<br /><br />I'll actually agree with Mr. Pound that a clean sheet would be a bad idea; it is always better in my experience to modify an existing document than start from scratch. That doesn't mean you can't gut the interior while leaving the exoskeleton.<br /><br />I'd claim that WADA per se isn't the problem, but Mr. Pound. If left to time, things are likely to improve. <br /><br />It takes cases like Landis to make flaws visible, and publicity like Landis to get anyone to do anything. <br /><br /> It's just not fun being Landis.<br /><br />TBVDBrowerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17718913310467614671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-31904976785322775972007-01-17T03:30:00.000-08:002007-01-17T03:30:00.000-08:00ORG here ...
A quote from Dick Pound in the Decem...ORG here ...<br /><br />A quote from Dick Pound in the December 11 LA Times article (part 2). It's right at the end:<br /><br />http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-doping11dec11,0,5870767,full.story?coll=la-headlines-california<br /><br />USADA officials say they have proposed revisions to the WADA Code allowing arbitrators more latitude to reduce penalties in inadvertent cases — or to impose enhanced penalties in egregious cases.<br /><br />But WADA's leaders are leaning in the opposite direction. Pound, for one, says the rules are already flexible enough to accommodate all situations that arise in individual cases.<br /><br />"The system, as a system, is a pretty good one," he said. "It can be tweaked here or there, but we're not sitting down with a blank sheet of paper and redesigning the entire world anti-doping system."<br /><br />-----<br /><br />Politically, what are we to make of these changes? Does it mean that Dick Pound lost some kind of internally battle about revising the code? It sure seem like they were talking about these changes and Pound was against them.<br /><br />If he lost this, is it fair to say this is the first of what will be many changes at WADA?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com