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The Russians got caught in a multi billion dollar government run & funded doping scandal. All with tractor trailers full of evidence.
WADA is corrupt
Cant understand why the sport doesn’t have independent third party program. Who needs wada anymore. you can’t suspend guys and kill their career over a “eh maybe” bad b sample....
Thinking along those lines brought me to this: How many ingredients in a can of Monster are illegal under the WADA doping code? If there's ever a conflict between those two parties, how fast would Feld take Monster's side and drop-kick the whole AMA/FIM sanction?
I've always wondered why an AMA sanction EVEN MATTERS. So long as all the parties involved agree that a particular series is the most legitimate, that's the one that will draw riders and crowds.
Pit Row
You don't have to get rid of the FIM, they just could get rid of WADA. I'm sure there are some brandy sniffing, cigar smoke filled backrooms with greasy palms preventing that.
Maybe the athletes should be insisting that the FIM tighten up its results management laxity. Provide hard deadlines and a responsive single point of contact to make the process and its schedule objective and timely in regard to the frequency of racing. Change rarely is dramatic, more often relentless pressure does the trick.
"The FIM enlists WADA to assist with testing procedures in Monster Energy Supercross and the FIM Motocross World Championship. Lucas Oil Pro Motocross enlists USADA for their testing. WADA and the FIM have come under fire for their handling of positive tests in the sport, including most recently the cases of Cade Clason and Broc Tickle—and, most notably, James Stewart."
So who retains USADA for outdoor national testing? MX Sports? Because what's interesting is that USADA is standing "shoulder to shoulder" with Tickle, and they test for outdoors. It's a weird, tangled web.
In December of 2017, the all-new World Enduro Super Series (WESS) was announced. A newly formed organization out of Austria announced it was stringing together a group of the popular events to form a new world championship—a mix of extreme races, classic enduro, cross-country and even a beach race. Despite not carrying a sanction from the FIM, WESS boldly positioned the eight-round contest as “a premium off-road championship” that will “bring together the world’s best and most visible events and will annually crown the ultimate enduro champion.”
“We’re not reinventing the wheel,” stated WESS Managing Director Philipp Stossier in the company’s first press release. “We’re bringing together well-established enduro competitions, run the way they’ve always been run, onto a larger communication platform to ensure enduro sport receives the focused, global exposure it deserves.”
So it would seem that there is NO need for FIM recognition to have a world championship but instead have enough backing from a powerhouse or two and you can compete against the FIM championship and in turn have you own rules for competitors to adhere to.
As long as any such series gets enough buy-in from fans, riders and factories.
It used to be that you needed an AMA or FIM sanction to be considered legit. In today's short-attention-span, "one-off" race environment (RBSR, MEC, Red Bull Rampage (Mountain Bike) to name a few,) I can imagine it being less and less important. Someday maybe there will be several shorter "outlaw" series that are more important to the industry and the fans than the traditional AMA or FIM "seasons."
In Australia they ran a anti Cocaine program to reduce the use of cocaine in the advertising industry. The effect was their was a spike in cocaine use. It made people think more about using cocaine than would be if they had remained silent.
WADA needs to be taken down a peg or 77 ! They should not have the power to ban an athlete for life ! That is open to abuse of power. They should only be able to influence one event at a time same as other form of control. Like engine rulings etc. Example if they find an Athlete cheated in an event then that event get penalized ! Full stop. They have to derive tests that the results are quick. It should also be for example they can only test under protest ! So a competitor can protest another rider and then they can send the test away and result can be pending that.
Their all powerful do whatever we wish situation is bad for everyone not to mention my main point is their focus on how important anti drugs and severe the penalties are means that drugs must be very very very good is actually a bad message to be broadcasting!
Like my friend joked to a cycle shop assistant - "Where are the drugs Lance took that is what I want !"
No reason why the penalties for the offense's could not have been determined and relayed to the affected athletes within a couple weeks. No reason whatsoever.
Our sport is different. You can’t keep these guys outta racing for 18 months. That’s 15-20% of most racers careers.
I say give any top 20 rider 6 months with a trainer, a factory ride, and all the peds you want, and see if anyone can take a top 20 rider and make them a top 5 rider. It's not likely to happen.
Now take at top 10 rider and give them the same thing, yeah.
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