World governing bodies representing the Olympic sports of bobsleigh and weightlifting have each vowed to appeal to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to change their rules to make it easier for them to take a tougher stance on cheats in sport.
Both the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) and the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) claim to have been restricted in the action they can take because of current rules stipulated in the World Anti-Doping Code.
Russian sliders including skeleton stars Alexander Tretiakov and Elena Nikitina have been banned from the Olympic Games for life and retrospectively disqualified from Sochi 2014 for their involvement in doping and sample tampering at their home Games.
But a world governing body attempt to provisionally suspend the implicated athletes pending CAS hearings was thwarted by the IBSF's own anti-doping hearing panel, which ruled that the suspensions were "not compatible with the principles of international law".
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) announced earlier this week that they did not have any jurisdiction to intervene due to IBSF rules based on the WADA recommendations, meaning that the athletes are still free to compete and win medals.
"The IBSF is committed to clean sport and as we have shown in our pursuit of seeking provisional suspensions we will take as tough a stance as is legally possible," the world governing body said today.
"The IBSF did everything it could to provisionally suspend the athletes and ensure our sports were clean and our rules were followed.
"Once this case is over, we will review our procedures and rules, and suggest proposed changes to the Code to WADA, to ensure the issues that this case has highlighted are fixed moving forward."
The IWF, meanwhile, claim they have no choice but to allow Kazakh weightlifter Ilya Ilyin to return to competition in June after serving a ban of only two years.
[공유] Governing bodies for bobsleigh and weightlifting urge WADA to change anti-doping rules
2018-01-25
14:36:38
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