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Kirsty Coventry Among Athletes Calling WADA To Take Action Against Doping

Just one day after The New York Times released their explosive story about Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov, the former director of the national anti-doping laboratory in Moscow who oversaw systematic doping and the sabotage of drug testing in Russian athletes, many are now calling for Russia to be banned from the Rio Games altogether.

In addition to the call to ban Russia, many professional athletes are speaking up and urging committees such as the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the International Olympic Committ (IOC) to step up and be more aggressive in ensuring that all athletes are clean and participating on a level playing field.

South African Olympic medalist Kirsty Coventry, who serves as an athlete representative for both WADA and the IOC, delivered some harsh words to Thursday’s WADA Foundation Board meeting through Paralympic sledge hockey champion Todd Nicholson. In her statement she proclaimed,

I have no confidence that I will be competing on a level playing field in Rio. We [WADA] market and portray ourselves as te ‘Organization for Clean Sport’ and ‘Protecting Clean Athletes’ but we are not….We either need to get full autonomy and independence to take actions, or we need to stop marketing ourselves as the organization that will get things done. 

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