Sports / Off the Field
World Anti-Doping Agency plans tougher sanctions in revised code
(AP)
Updated: 2007-07-11 09:31
ALGIERS, Algeria _ Doping bans could be lengthened to four years, the
vice president of the World Anti-Doping Agency said Tuesday.
WADA vice president Jean-Francois Lamour said sanctions could exceed two
years if it is believed that an athlete organized his or her own doping
or set up an entourage that helped to cheat.
"We are capable of going to a sanction of four years," Lamour said ahead
of the All Africa Games. "This is a figure that has been mentioned and
still needs to be ratified."
But he also said that doping authorities would seek to be more lenient
where appropriate.
"I am opposed to a zero sanction, but we are capable of going below the
floor that has been fixed in a case that shows there was no clear
intention of doping," Lamour said.
Revising the anti-doping code will be discussed at a November 15-17
meeting in Madrid, Spain, where changes will be ratified, Lamour said.
"I think that we shall be much harder and stricter for sports people or
an entourage that wants to cheat and that employs all means to cheat, but
at the same time use greater flexibility in the application of the code,"
WADA vice president Jean-Francois Lamour said.
Lamour said WADA hopes to make changes that would allow a clearer
understanding of the code by athletes and by the public.
He the revision of the code would also address the lengthy process of
testing and fixing sanctions.
"It seems indispensable to us to shorten the delays between ... the
analysis of the first and second sample, for example, so that we can move
much quicker in establishing a sanction where it is deemed necessary," he
said.
WADA has previously called for quicker sanctioning because of the slow
progress of two of the major scandals of 2006 _ the positive test of Tour
de France champion Floyd Landis and the investigation into Spain's
Operation Puerto doping scandal.
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