point of order mr speaker
If you’re going to bring points of order, better bring The Code!
If WADA had chosen to have done that, it would have been a breach of the code and a breach of the privacy standards.
Not at all. While they maybe had a legal pathway to not publicly release, it is absolutely not a breach of The Code to choose public release.
14.3 Public Disclosure
14.3.1 After notice has been provided to the Athlete
or other Person in accordance with the
International Standard for Results Management,
and to the applicable Anti-Doping Organizations
in accordance with Article 14.1.2, the identity
of any Athlete or other Person who is notified
of a potential anti-doping rule violation, the
Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method and
nature of the violation involved, and whether
the Athlete or other Person is subject to a
Provisional Suspension may be Publicly Disclosed
by the Anti-Doping Organization with Results
Management responsibility
Also, athletes can be provisionally suspended during an investigation, and that also involves going public.
7.4.2 Optional Provisional Suspension Based on an Adverse Analytical Finding for Specified Substances, Specified Methods, Contaminated Products, or Other Anti-Doping Rule Violations A Signatory may adopt rules, applicable to any Event for which the Signatory is the ruling body or to any team selection process for which the Signatory is responsible or where the Signatory is the applicable International Federation or has Results Management authority over the alleged anti-doping rule violation, permitting Provisional Suspensions to be imposed for anti-doping rule violations not covered by Article 7.4.1 prior to analysis of the Athlete’s B Sample or final hearing as described in Article 8.
Provisional suspensions must be public. You can’t secretly suspend someone.
Tygart is arguing both of these should have happened.
It’s what USADA does. Here’s a very recent example. If nearly two dozen athletes got contaminated with a powerful drug from a hotel kitchen, that’s good information to get out there to protect other athletes. I like the call for reform in that USADA release. Sunlight is better to reform rules related to contamination. Secrecy is not a great way to handle mass contamination events - to change the testing rules to not have positives on trace substances or else to instruct athletes how to avoid contamination.
It’s also good for the whole thing to be above board in this case.
Edit: Maybe your argument is this was all CHINADA’s discretion, and WADA had no authority to question CHINADA’s decisions? I admit I don’t know the conditions under which a WADA can review or override the decisions of a national results management body.
But it’s not a good look that WADA did minimal-to-no review of any of it. Just stamped it and moved on.
Edit: I’m also mildly suspicious of Aldrich Bailey’s “ostarine on the leg sleeve.” But at least I’m allowed to be mildly suspicious and question it. Unlike with the 23 swimmers.