wejo wrote:
Senior Software Engineer wrote:So this is evidence of what exactly? His experiment didn't break any laws or violate any doping rules.
The allegations are that he doped his runners. There's no proof of that. Just a bunch of people making assumptions.
Your post inspired me to go look this up because I have thought for a long time Alberto Salazar could possibly face sanction for running the androgel experiment on his sons as it may be a doping violation.
I've pasted the full section (2.6.2) at the bottom but it says that possession of a prohibited substance by a support person (Alberto Salazar) is a doping violation unless that person has a TUE for the substance or "other acceptable justification" for it if I'm reading it correctly.
So if Alberto Salazar possessed androgel then that normally be a doping violation. However, Alberto has a personal prescription for androgel so I think he'd argue that is an "acceptable justification" for androgel.
However, Alberto does not have permission to give that androgel to someone else. If he is possessing androgel to give it to someone else that would be outside the valid reason for it and one could argue a violation of 2.6.2.
Change the name of the drugs. Say Alberto had a prescription for EPO, but decided to get and give androgel to his sons. One could easily argue his possession of androgel would not be "consistent with a TUE granted to an Athlete in accordance with Article 4.4 or other acceptable justification" and that would mean its a doping violation.
Now in this case Alberto has a prescription for androgel but he doesn't have a prescription that lets him give it to his sons. If that is what he did, not only would that be a violation of prescription drug laws but one could easily argue a violation of WADA code.
Alberto might try and argue that the his worry of being sabotaged is an "acceptable justification." However, if Alberto used his personal prescription of androgel to conduct a doping experiemnt on his sons, I think one can easily argue Alberto broke not only prescription drug laws but committed a doping violation.
WADA code 2.62: "2.6.2 Possession by an Athlete Support Person
In-Competition of any Prohibited Substance or
any Prohibited Method, or Possession by an
Athlete Support Person Out-of-Competition of
any Prohibited Substance or any Prohibited
Method which is prohibited Out-of-Competition
in connection with an Athlete, Competition or
training, unless the Athlete Support Person
establishes that the Possession is consistent
with a TUE granted to an Athlete in accordance
with Article 4.4 or other acceptable justification."
https://wada-main-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/resources/files/wada-2015-world-anti-doping-code.pdf
That is one of the charges Jon Drummond was found guilty of.
http://www.usada.org/wp-content/uploads/AAA-decision-Drummond-December-2014.pdfIt seems to me that if USADA really wanted to go after Salazar, they could come up with enough to at least slap him on the wrist.