I Fundamentally Disagree With Dick Pound’s WADA Defense

The more this Russia story chugs along the more numb I become to WADA officials defending the indefensible. This reached a new height this week as Dick Pound (the founding President of the World Anti-Doping Agency) decided to compare WADA critics to a ‘lynch mob’,

“Lynch mobs are just that — unruly gangs having a single objective, murdering someone without any due process of justice,” he said.

“Much of the response to Russia’s failure to provide access to the former Moscow laboratory data by the deadline imposed by the World Anti-Doping Agency’s Executive Committee in September 2018 has all the elements of a lynch mob.

“Many of those making up the mob know or should know that they are out of line.

“What is their real end-game?

“Many others are not familiar enough with the issues to have such strident views and still more have not bothered to inform themselves.”

Ok let’s rewind a bit and recall why we are in this situation to begin with:

First, there were the findings brought to light in the McLaren report and brought to mainstream coverage in the documentary ‘Icarus’ — Of which I covered here:

WADA is in a tough position, we already know modern doping is hard to catch even with the advent of the biological passport. Just this week Ciarán Ó Lionáird has come public with his belief that micro dosing is untraceable within our current system…