{"id":140,"date":"2013-11-11T17:13:13","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T17:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/drugs-in-sport\/?p=140"},"modified":"2013-11-11T17:47:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T17:47:37","slug":"jamaica-kenya-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/doping\/featured\/jamaica-kenya-scrutiny","title":{"rendered":"Jamaica and Kenya under scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WADA<\/a><\/p>\n

The World Conference on Doping in Sport starts tomorrow in Johannesburg, where it will consider a new anti-doping code and is expected to confirm the global doping policing body\u2019s next president.<\/p>\n

World sports leaders will converge at the Sandton Convention Centre for the four-day meeting amid frosty relations between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and international sporting bodies.<\/p>\n

The conference will discuss the final draft of the third World Anti-Doping Code, which tightens punishment for transgressors and fine-tunes tests as doping scandals continue.<\/p>\n

Less than one per cent of doping checks give an abnormal result, though tests have jumped from 150,000 a year to 250,000 since WADA\u2019s creation in 1999.<\/p>\n

Notwithstanding the tests, cyclist Lance Armstrong escaped detection for years, while former 100-meter sprint stars, Jamaican Asafa Powell and America\u2019s Tyson Gay, tested positive for banned substances this year.<\/p>\n

The new code will extend bans for caught-out dopers from two years to four, which implies automatic disqualification from the next Olympics.<\/p>\n

The rules will also target support staff who conspire with sports people to use banned substances, and fine-tune testing according to the different sporting codes.<\/p>\n

A WADA report in June blamed a lack of will for the relative few doping cases that are caught. The problem lay not with modern science, which is completely up to the challenge, the report found.<\/p>\n

The conference will no doubt also discuss situations in Jamaica, Brazil and Kenya.<\/p>\n

Besides Powell four others from the Caribbean island were also caught doping this year, and a report is upcoming after a WADA team audited the country\u2019s national doping agency last month.<\/p>\n

In August the agency revoked the accreditation of Rio de Janeiro, which will host the 2014 World Cup final and the summer Olympics in 2016.<\/p>\n

WADA declared that the laboratory did not comply with international standards.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Kenyan authorities have been dragging their feet to investigate allegations of doping amongst its athletes.<\/p>\n

But WADA\u2019s accusatory tone with sporting bodies has come under fire notably from the International Olympic Committee (IOC).<\/p>\n

Sport federations want it to play a more active role in performing anti-doping tests, as opposed to merely playing the schoolteacher that polices the code.<\/p>\n

But WADA complains it is expected to do ever more with a budget of only US$28 million (RM89 million).<\/p>\n

The conference will also most likely confirm incoming president Craig Reedie\u2019s appointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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