Down Goes Danielle Meucci

Renato Canova wrote:

Clerk, what did I write about Lalli ? That I gave him some advice (being in China) from 2014 till June 2015, when he went to Stefano Baldini because needed a coach working with him in Italy, not only some programme.

So, which is the difference from what I wrote and what Lalli said ?

Secondly, the problem of the Italian Antidoping Agency is exactly how I explained in my previous post. You can go to read an article of Eugenio Capodacqua, on the newspaper Repubblica, where he explains very well before the Italian antidoping didn't have the right credibility, because was a branch of CONI (the Italian Olympic Committee) controlling.... the athletes competing for CONI. So, the controlled system was the controller of itself.

After this situation, recently the President of CONI changed the system, and all the officials working in this system. The current NADO is different from the old one, and of course is very much more precise than before.

Here the only charlatan are you, who doesn't want to understand what I write, and also if English is not my Language, I think it's clear enough for not creating misunderstandings.

I suppose I wrote clearly they are guilty of superficiality, and this fact can't be considered like a not important fact. But, also, I specified that the work of NADO about the communications with the athletes was absolutely inadequate, creating in the mind of the athletes the idea that whereabouts and correct procedures were something not important.

If, after the first mistake for every athlete (no compilation of whereabouts, or not correct update of them in case of some change), NADO had to sent some warning (explaining the risk of ban in case of repeated failing), I think nobody could continue to ignore the whereabouts.

There are cases very strange : for example, Fabrizio Donato, who in the same period had several tests from WADA, always very precise in his whereabouts (he well knew how to act, being from long time athlete of international level), instead making mistakes with the Italian whereabouts.

So, it's clear something didn't work, and this is a problem of communications.

About the athletes I know, NOBODY of them received any official communication of missed tests, or of not filling their whereabouts in the right way (and, at the end, we find athletes with 9 faults, without ant previous communication !).

I suggest you something : when there are problems about doping in different Countries, before writing immediately without knowing the exact facts, wait some days in order to have more precise infos. Being in Kenya and Ethiopia for long time, and in China the last two years, I saw situations very far from what media writes, always without knowing the differences among the problem of one Country and the problem of another Country.

In some Country there was doping organized and supported from the local Federation (not the Government), how happened in the most part of the Countries of the old communist block (URSS, GDR, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania) in the past, and partially continued during present days.

In some other Country, like China, doping was widespread in the past, but the athletes were totally passive, because the system didn't accept any individual idea from them : they had to do everything their coaches ordered, in training such as taking various pharmacs, without asking anything, because their only role was to obey. In China it's very easy to connect any athletes with their coaches, because all the coaches are officially paid by their Province, and only these coaches work with the athletes (unofficial coaches are not allowed and don't exist), so, if some athlete is positive, is because he received doping from his coach.

Also, no Chinese athletes are allowed to compete abroad if the Federation doesn't enter them directly (private activity doesn't exist), so when some athlete is positive, the coach is fired losing his job, the athlete is banned for 4 years (already when the official sanction was 2 years only), and automatically can't compete abroad in the future.

In Western Countries, the athletes themselves asked for doping, because there is not any official structure behind them, but some private Group. We can say the western doping is something individual, where the Federations don't organize anything, but sometimes don't pay attention to what happens inside the Country.

When I see people putting in the same pot the doping of Russia and Kenya, there is clear evidence they don't know anything about the two Countries.

It's true that AK didn't have any interest for building an antidoping agency in Kenya. But what people has to understand, is that Kenya is the Country in the world with the highest number of athletes in top 30 (so, needing whereabouts), and for having an efficient antidoping system they must use more than 50% of all the financial resources of the Federation, if the Government doesn't intervene (and the Government intervened with a contribution of... 2000 USD, enough for 4 or 5 tests in one season !).

And another thing everybody must understand is that, of all the Kenyans positive, no more than 3 of them were in top 30 in the World, so in any case the others could not be tested out of competition (because not in the Group of the best), like happens in the most part of Countries. Tell me, how many times some American sprinter or middle distance runner who is number 10 in US was tested out of competition ?

And I confirm what I said several times : EPO (not other type of doping, I already spoke a lot of time about this) doesn't work for athletes living and training in altitude, with high volume and high intensity (and, of course, proper methodology).

It's a fact that, now, in Kenya there is some mentality, for athletes of medium level (medium for Kenya, of course), to look at some shortcut. This mentality changed in the last 3 years only. I didn't go Kenya from February 2014, and I can assure that, till 2011, when I was there for 6-9 months per year, NEVER there was some athlete asking for some supplement, also legal. But the main problem is the ignorance and little education.

You can see the most part of doping is with Nandrolone or Florosemide.

How many cases of EPO there were among the doped athletes ?

But for the general idea, all Kenyans are doped. That's the reason because ALL the best Kenyan Champions are asking to have a penal law, for putting in jail officials, coaches and also athletes cheating in this way.