Contador a doping cheat says WADA president
Lausanne (Reuters) WADA uk canada goose president John Fahey labelled Alberto Contador a cheap canada goose uk cheat on Tuesday and said the Spanish rider might have escaped with half of his canada goose clearance two year doping ban had it Canada Goose Online not been thecanadagooseoutlet for remarks by a Spanish politician during the case.
World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) President John Fahey looks on before the WADA canada goose Media Symposium at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne in this February 27, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/Files
The head of the World Anti Doping Agency added that politicians should steer clear of doping cases and Canada Goose Jackets said he was worried as to whether Canada Goose Coats On Sale national sports Canada Goose online federations, who have the responsibility to discipline offenders, might be sympathetic to their own athletes.
think that governments and politicians ought to stand back and stay above the administration of these issues when canada goose black friday sale it comes to doping in sport, Fahey told Reuters in an interview.
is a doping cheat, full stop.
In January last year, the Spanish Cycling Federation (RFEC) cheap Canada Goose initially proposed a one year ban for Contador after he tested positive canada goose factory sale for the banned steroid clenbuterol during the 2010 Tour de France, which he won.
The then Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero canada goose coats said there was no legal reason to sanction Contador and canada goose clearance sale shortly canadian goose jacket afterwards, the RFEC overturned the ban, clearing the way for Contador to return to competition.
The International Cycling Union (UCI) canada goose store and WADA then appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), who announced a two year ban for Contador on Monday.
can say with regard to the Contador decision, it was regrettable Canada Goose Outlet that, when the Spanish federation proposed a 12 month penalty, a senior politician made a statement to Canada Goose Jacket say that Contador was innocent, said Fahey, who did not mention Zapatero by canada goose coats on sale name.
NO ALTERNATIVE then withdrew their proposed 12 month penalty canada goose uk outlet and exonerated him, that effectively meant that uk canada goose outlet WADA had no choice but to appeal.
we would have done if the 12 months had stood, I can say, but after those set of Canada Goose sale circumstances came, which suggested there was clearly a bias, certainly by the senior politician who made that statement publicly, then we had to appeal.
Fahey said he could not think of any alternative to the current system where doping punishments are handed out by the relevant national sports federation.
have great respect for CAS, I worry about decisions of individual national federations where it comes to dealing with their own sportsmen and women who have tested positive, because clearly the temptation must be there to canada goose uk black friday protect one of your own, he said.
don know the alternative. I can imagine buy canada goose jacket cheap that Spain would say to Italy, you deal with all Spanish positives and we deal with all Italians, I think hell will freeze Canada Goose Parka over first.
can certainly understand where there must be canada goose uk shop a certain level of national element, particularly if it a national hero.
can only hope that the bodies that deal with it at whatever level do so with integrity. The good thing about the (anti doping) code is that it allows WADA to examine every decision that is taken and to appeal buy canada goose jacket if it believes the decision wasn taken for proper reasons.
ATENDIMENTO AO CLIENTE
leiroconstrucoes@terra.com.br
(71) 3287-2090
Todos os direitos reservados