Bill Murray wrote:
[quote]wejo wrote:
2) There are valid reasons to support the WADA/IAAF stance that blood
values should not be released now.
3) I firmly believe Paula does not have anything to hide and down the
road will make her values public.
Thank you for your follow-up response. Having said that, can you elaborate on your two points above. Do you know or did Paula indicate when these values will be released. Additionally, since there are valid reasons why the values should not be released right now. What are those reasons? This shouldn't need to be confidential as it must apply to all athletes since WADA is not releasing anyone's blood values.
As for #2)
Generally speaking, not getting into any athletes' specifics, I think the biological passport is a good thing. It has advanced anti-doping a long way. We want to keep confidence in the biological passport system. The way the system works is athletes blood values are not public. I don't think that should be the case, but can see the argument we don't want athletes releasing values because they will be misinterpreted. I don't agree with that argument but there must be a valid reason no sport that I know of releases the values.
However, I think it is fair to let WADA investigate what is going on and come back with a response in light of the Sunday Times stuff.
We don't want a bunch of athletes to release their values and then for people for various reasons to say, "I guess the Biological Passport is useless" and should be scrapped. That could possibly happen if values were released without any context. Faith in the system is important so following WADA's lead for the time being I don't think is unreasonable to let things settle down a bit.
Right now from the Sunday Times we just have hints of cover-up with no specific allegations against any athletes except those caught doping so for athletes to selectively release things, I understand the argument what good does that do for the sport? As we said in our editorial on the Sunday Times stuff
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2015/08/letsrun-coms-thoughts-on-the-sunday-times-doping-investigation/if they want to come out with more specific allegations about athletes then do that. Instead there aren't any specific allegations, and we have a few athletes selectively releasing off scores (but not full blood test results). That's very far from a complete picture so I understand the generic argument for following the WADA lead for now.
#3) I don't have a timeline.