A new trans-national body is required to combat wide-ranging corruption and the levels of doping in sport are now worse than ever, according to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
2. A new trans-national body is required to combat wide-ranging
corruption and the levels of doping in sport are now worse than ever,
according to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
The world anti-doping body also expressed fears that athletics will
follow cycling in uncovering a serious culture of cheating. In the
recent past, the revelations emerging from the Operation Puerto trial
and the Australian Crime Commission investigation into organized
crime and drugs have brought a bad reputation for sports.
Howman issued a plea for a new "sports integrity unit" with WADA a
part of it and remarked that this unit would take responsibility to
combat match-fixing, doping, corrupt betting, and other forms of
cheating that are increasingly associated with organized crime. The
WADA director general said the integrity unit with liaise with law
enforcement agencies around the world.
3. Howman added that the influx of money into global sports in the last
decade had attracted the criminal underworld and potential for
match-fixing.
The problems associated with doping in sports does not end here.
Many global sport federations are not doing enough to combat doping
while some fail often to test enough blood samples. An exasperated
Howman said WADA spend all the money and put everything in place
but finds that people would not do it unless the world anti-doping
agency makes something mandatory.
The number of adverse or atypical findings across sport is just under 2
percent while the estimates of the prevalence of blood doping
averaged 14 percent according to a study of blood samples collected
after the Daegu World Athletics Championships in 2011.
