1000 wrote:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/athletics/2020/01/17/uk-anti-doping-insists-will-not-release-mo-farah-samples-wada/The chief executive of Ukad, Nicole Sapstead, said she would block the release of samples stored for future retesting unless there was “credible evidence” to suggest they contained banned substances.
Before the end of his tenure as Wada president, Sir Craig Reedie announced a probe into those athletes to have worked with Alberto Salazar, which he said would include finding “samples we can retest”.
Ukad refused a request to hand over those it held for Farah during the United States Anti-Doping Agency’s investigation into Salazar, who has lodged an appeal against the four-year ban he was handed in October for doping offences.
Asked whether Wada had the power to seize Farah’s samples, Sapstead replied: “My view is any sample that is collected by UK Anti-Doping is the possession of UK Anti-Doping.”
It has just occurred to me: does this mean that the UK is now WADA non compliant and can now be banned from the Olympics?
This could be interesting as the UK was once a great Empire. I suggest that Boris Johnson and Vladimir Putin team up this spring and organise a paralell games to the Olympics - they could call it "the Brexit Games" to celebrate the great political events of the last 4 years. It could also represent a resurrection of the old Empire Games and the Friendship games combined into one great meet. I guess you could have Russia, the UK and Kenya competing for a start. It would give the great athletes from these nations a chance to compete on the interantional stage and it would also be a refreshing alternative to the Olympics which has become a bit of a commercialized bore in any case.