GLASGOW, Scotland -- The World Anti-Doping Agency calls its ongoing project to
revamp its structure and load up with increased regulatory punch The Way
Forward, but that path will continue to meander through the past for at least a
little while longer.
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Foundation Board meeting, deputy director general Rob Koehler called for Russian
sports officials to acknowledge the countrys pervasive, government-enabled
doping culture, calling that acceptance vital to being fully welcomed back to
global competition.Vitaly Smirnov, appointed by Russian president Vladimir Putin
to bring the countrys sports establishment back into good graces, said that
admission would never come. We know the [doping] system did not exist, he said.
Detailing his 35 years in high-level positions in elite sport dating back to the
Soviet era, he said nothing nefarious could have happened without his
approval.So there. That non-meeting of the minds sums up where Olympic sport has
been stalled for years, without public accountability or consequences for anyone
other than the athletes themselves.?Individual athletes were held to the highest
standard, punished even if they inadvertently ingested a banned substance. Yet
the systems that surrounded them could be dysfunctional or corroded and avoid
paying much of a price. WADA limited itself to suspending labs and flunking
national anti-doping agencies for incompetence, but as athletes from those
countries kept showing up at the start line, it became increasingly clear that a
system created 16 years ago to harmonize rules across borders harbored deep
inequities in testing and enforcement.?WADA has launched a salvo to try to break
the stalemate, saying it can and should regulate any entities that sign its
code, including national Olympic committees and international sports
federations. In a new, graduated set of sanctions presented publicly Sunday for
the first time, WADA would impose oversight, fines and -- as a last, drastic
resort -- the threat of an Olympic ban in cases where it finds sustained,
deliberate sabotage of its rules.?Canadas Rene Bouchard, the veteran government
administrator who led the WADA committee that came up with the new standards,
called them the opposite of political, as far as Im concerned -- its open, its
known. The draft will now undergo legal review, but Bouchard and others made it
clear they want to put it into practice as soon as possible.?Sterner sanctions
could gain impetus next month if, as expected, the conclusion of law professor
Richard McLarens investigation adds to the already considerable evidence that
Russian doping was state-sponsored. Part II of his report is slated to be
released Dec. 9.?Joseph de Pencier, CEO of the Institute of National Anti-Doping
Organizations, predicted the report would uncover more skulduggery in a way
thats very detailed and cant be dismissed as allegations. ?It sure would be nice
to see some contrition, he said of Russias sports establishment.?But scrutiny of
WADAs plans will be intense and resistance is inevitable. Potential collateral
damage to innocent athletes will be a hard needle to thread. The International
Olympic Committee, which has commissioned its own investigation of Russia, will
almost certainly resist encroachment on its turf and its traditional role as
sole gatekeeper for its flagship event. That was amply demonstrated last summer
when it steamrolled WADAs objections and made most Russian athletes eligible for
the Rio 2016 Games.?In recent months, the IOC has oscillated between pledging
support to WADA and attacking it. Beckie Scott, the retired Olympic champion
cross-country skier and chair of WADAs Athlete Committee, labeled those
broadsides an effort to destabilize and undermine WADA ... the only fight that
should be taking place is the fight for clean sport.?The feud is complex because
its familial. The overlap between the two bureaucracies is written into WADAs
structure and embodied in its current president, IOC member Craig Reedie, who
was elected unopposed for another three-year term Sunday. If WADA succeeds in
extending its regulatory reach, the potential conflicts of interest could
multiply. Sunday, the agency committed to forming a working group that will
review governance and ethical standards.?Max Cobb, president and CEO of the U.S.
Biathlon Association, said he would prefer to see IOC members excluded from WADA
executive positions. Like many whose sports have been dented by doping, Cobb,
who attended Sundays meeting as an observer, is impatient with the infighting
and wants to see concrete progress. You wonder whether theres a desire to really
resolve this, or if its just turf wars and pleasantries being exchanged, he
said.?WADA is bidding to expand its jurisdiction and authority at perhaps the
most demanding and transitional time in its history. Many of the governments
that fund it, the national anti-doping agencies that implement its rules, and
the athletes who submit to them have raised their voices and are putting
pressure on the agency to assert itself.?The agencys to-do list includes
figuring out how to grow its budget to match its bigger ambitions, including a
beefed-up investigative unit; drawing up a template for an independent global
testing entity; and implementing a new policy for encouraging and rewarding
whistleblowers. Cyberattacks by Russian hackers exposed athletes medical
information by leaking therapeutic use exemption documents this year -- payback
for WADAs stance that Russia should be banned from Rio -- and forced a $200,000
IT upgrade.?The events that propelled WADA to this juncture may seem to hark
back to the Cold War, but Edwin Moses, the double Olympic hurdles champion and
chairman of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency board, balks at too simplistic a
narrative for the sides that have been taken.?Me being an American has nothing
to do with it, he said of his support for a stronger WADA. I dont want your
daughter, your son, under the impression they have to take drugs to compete.
Thats corrupt. And that right is not just for American athletes.
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style before taking part in a disciplinary hearing for his illegal check to New
Jersey forward Dainius Zubrus head. SILVERSTONE, Great Britain -- Fernando
Alonso finished the first day of this weeks Silverstone test at the top of the
timesheets after rain during lunch prevented lap time improvements in the
afternoon.Alonso set a time of 1:31.290 in the morning session using the
super-soft tyres, beating his qualifying time at the weekends British Grand Prix
by nearly 0.5s. The McLaren driver was not put off by the rain in the afternoon,
completing an additional 50 laps in the wet, including a long run in the worst
of the conditions.DTM driver Esteban Ocon completed the most mileage of any
driver over the course of the day, with a total of 123 laps in both dry and wet
conditions. His best time was 1.5s the top of the timesheets, but Mercedes stuck
to a strict run plan of medium tyres when the track was dry in the morning,
meaning Alonsos time was set on tyres two steps softer in Pirellis range. Ocon
will continue at the wheel of the 2016 Mercedes during the second day of the
test on Wednesday in order to fulfil regulations that require young drivers -- a
driver with less than three races experience -- to complete at least two of the
four days of in-season testing available to teams.Alex Lynn was third fastest in
the Williams, 1.6s off Ocon as he worked through a test programme of 38 laps in
the dry before completing a further 16 laps in the wet. He will hand over to
race regular Valtteri Bottas on Wednesday.Ferrari Academy driver Charles Leclerc
was fourth fastest as he made his debut for the Italian team. After driving 25
laps in FP1 for Haas on Friday, Leclerc completed just 19 laps over the course
of the day, with only two set in the wet conditions in the afternoon. Kimi
Raikkonen returns to the track on Wednesdayy for a day behind the wheel of the
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Wholesale Air Max Plus. Nikita Mazepin was
fifth fastest on his debut with Force India, racking up 35 laps in the morning
and opting not to go out in the afternoon due to a lack of wet weather tyres.
Carlos Sainz had no such concerns in the Toro Rosso, completing 91 laps as the
team ran a new engine cover with two ducts either side of the airbox.American
Santino Ferrucci made his F1 debut for Haas, completing a total of 55 laps on
the first of his two days in the car. The 18-year-old from Woodbury, Connecticut
is a development driver for the American team and also races in the GP3 series
that follows F1 to certain rounds on the calendar.Pirelli completed 48 laps of
testing with a 2014-spec Mercedes and Manor driver Pascal Wehrlein at the wheel.
The objective was to kick off development work on its 2017 tyres, but with only
slicks in the garage the test programme ended as soon as the rain began to fall.
The tyres run were 2016 dimensions, but featured prototype construction
materials and compounds that will be used in the wider tyres set to be
introduced next year.Rio Haryanto was ninth fastest in the Manor as the team
continued to develop its latest parts, setting a time 0.944s faster than Sergey
Sirotkins best effort in the Renault. Pierre Gasly propped at the bottom of the
timesheets after an electrical issue kept him in the garage for much of the
morning when the track was dry at its quickest. He did, however, managed to
complete the latest test of the Halo head protection device as Red Bull fitted a
prototype to its car for the first time.
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