Moscow Doping Lab May Get Suspended By WADA
By Alexey Sukachev
News has come from Johannesburg, RSA, where the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) stated that the Moscow Testing Lab is facing a potential suspension where the facility will lose their license – it’s not yet defined if the move will be permanent or not.
“Our experts have come to the conclusion that the laboratory should be suspended because it is not fully reliable. We can not rely on it. We recommended imposing sanctions to the (WADA) president John Fahey”, said former WADA president and the head of its disciplinary committee Dick Pound.
Fahey, in turn, said he would take some time to review all of the info presented by Pound.
The possible ban of the Moscow lab will mean that their specialists will not be working at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. The same case occurred earlier this year, when the Rio lab was banned, preventing it from testing sportsmen during the 2014 World Cup in Brasil.
The Moscow lab was also in the very center of the heated verbal encounters between members of the local and worldwide boxing community. First, it was revealed Guillermo Jones was under influence of a banned substance during his Moscow fight with Denis Lebedev in May. The result being first confirmed by the Moscow lab. Then the lab and its president Grigory Rodchenkov were in the center of a very heated negotiations between Team Povetkin and Team Klitschko, who refused to use them.
