Suddenly it became clear that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has lost all samples of athletes, the speakers for the US national team from 1990 to 2016. The agency explained that this was the result of an oversight cleaner, who accidentally dropped the racks with samples of American athletes and all 30 thousand tubes shattered.
On the destruction of WADA in all doping tests American athletes reported the British agency BBC.
"As a result of careless actions employee cleaning company, World Anti-Doping agenstovo (WADA) has lost all samples of American athletes, the speakers for the US national team in 1990" - reports the BBC.
"It's terrible - American section of samples in our archive completely destroyed. To date, there is not a single specimen samples taken from American athletes who spoke for the US team in 1990 "- he told BBC Daniel Sendfordu one of the World Anti-Doping Agency senior staff who wished to remain anonymous.
When asked what happened, the WADA official said that "one of the employees of cleaning agencies, carrying out cleaning of the American section, inadvertently touched the rack with the samples, and then he fell, dragging the other racks on the principle of" Domino ". As a result, more than 30,000 tubes were broken, others are not subject to identification, as stored in signed and numbered cells, and the information was not on the tubes themselves.
Irretrievably lost samples from 1990 to 2016, as the file is temporarily stored together with the latest data taken. Earlier, American Archives trial was rip it out of special cold rooms, due to their non-routine repairs, and placed on the ordinary shelves. The works were to take no more than 1-2 days, after which the samples were to return to the place. "
BBC notes that the incident with the "fall of shelving" took place on the eve of a visit offices WADA joint Austro-Russian delegation microbiologists and biochemists from around the world who had to carry out a comparative analysis of the Russian athletes samples with samples of American and make a very credible conclusions. It is noteworthy that the delegation with great difficulty got permission to its mission, as in her way, according to our reliable data, there were very, very formidable obstacles, and only their authority in the scientific world to help them to get permission to MOK.
Representatives of WADA management reported that they terminated the contract with Cleaning Agency, which the employee so "successfully" dropped the racks with the US analysis. "We hope that the awkward cleaning woman awaits a great future, if not in the WADA, in USADA» - ironically BBC presenter.