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Vancouver 2010:Olympic Athlete Doping Ban: WADA Bans 30 Athletes
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by Sudha Krishna | February 11, 2010 at 12:26 pm
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The World Anit-Doping Agency (WADA) has banned more than 30 Olympic Athletes from competing in the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games a day before the Olympic Opening Ceremony.
The names of the Olympic Athletes who have been banned from competition by WADA has not be released. The CBC quotes David Howman, the Director General of WADA
"It's a bit like before Beijing, when 70 athletes didn't go to the Games because they had tested positive beforehand," Howman told the New York Times. "The pre-Games testing is pretty intensive. We can say it was effective because there are some athletes who didn’t come."
The doping tests were conducted by the National Anti-doing Agencies for the various Winter Games Sports. WADA bases its decisions on the Prohibited List - a list of drugs, steroids, substances and practices that are against WADA and Olympic rules
For the duration of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games the International Olympic Committee will take over drug testing - it actually set up a lab in Vancouver staffed by anti-doping scientists.
For Background watch a May 2009 video interview of David Howman, Head of WADA
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Interview with David Howman, WADA Director General at the EU Anti-Doping Conference (13 May 2009)
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at 12:52 on February 11th, 2010
This is unfortunate. It.s a fact of life of competing with the elites in the world.
at 15:11 on February 11th, 2010
I wish the WIDA would perform the tests for MLB, the whole season may be cancelled though.
at 15:12 on February 11th, 2010
I meant to say the WADA.
at 00:23 on February 12th, 2010
The World Anit-Doping Agency (WADA)I believe you mean ANTI. not Anit
at 13:47 on February 12th, 2010
Dopping like a theft is not gonna to stop. All Olympic ideas are corrupted by commerciality and politicized world of the modern sport. How can Canada host Olympic Games troops beeing present overseas? Total disrace of the Olympic Games Charts.
at 15:56 on February 12th, 2010
"Dopping like a theft is not gonna to stop."Is this to say that theft is ok??? And, If you were in a competitive CAREER and your success depends on everyone competing FAIRLY or you don't have a career at all, what would you do?"All Olympic ideas are corrupted by commerciality and politicized world of the modern sport. How can Canada host Olympic Games troops beeing present overseas?"Go do your research. For this you're going to need to look into the history, values, legislation, and economics of past Olympics, and Vancouver 2010. Then you're going to want to look into 'the world of modern sport' and ask yourself how WORLD-CLASS AMATEUR ATHLETES are supposed to come together and compete on a world-stage without a level of commercialism (yes - it's commercialism, not commerciality) and some political involvement? And I can't even BEGIN to touch on the war argument. Now you're just grasping at straws... If the Olympics are not for you, don't watch. If you are someone who is not going to do at least the minimum in research before you form your opinion, please, keep your ill-informed, horrendously dysfunctional, and clearly poorly stated (dopping? dirace? beeing? Spell check anyone?) thoughts to yourself. And what, exactly, are the Olympic Games Charts?
at 15:39 on February 12th, 2010
If you compete in a sport where the expectation is that every athlete is not doping, then don't dope. If you need to dope to achieve Olympic performance levels... you're not the best in the world! Doping is NOT a fact of sport, it's a disgrace and does nothing but take away from the successes and challenges of all of the 'clean' athletes. GO WADA!
at 11:49 on March 1st, 2010
Doping is harmful to the athletes and if you allow it, all would be forced to take them to be competitive. What is fair about that? If you want a Gold, you have to kill your heart? Oh please people, grow up.