The founding president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, Dick Pound, has accused UK Anti-Doping of being out of line in the fall-out of the Russian cheating scandal and trying to act as “heirs apparent” to WADA.
A recent summit in Washington, headed by the US Anti-Doping Agency and attended by UKAD, called for urgent WADA reform in light of sanctions being lifted against the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (Rusada). But Pound told Standard Sport: “I think USADA and UKAD and other national anti-doping organisations are out of line on this. They’re out of control and focusing on the wrong things.”
WADA’s executive board is due to meet in Baku tomorrow to discuss the latest position over Rusada, which has been set a December 31 deadline to divulge all samples from its Moscow laboratory.
At that meeting, Pound said: “The point I hope to raise if given the chance is to say the Olympic movement stakeholders and public authorities should get into these NADOs to say this is not what we’re funding you to do.
"We’re funding you to head up anti-doping in your country. You’re not the heirs apparent to WADA. Get on with what you’re supposed to be doing otherwise we’ll find someone else to do it.”
