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CICLISMO
«Queremos que el deporte sea perfecto y la sociedad no lo es»
Christian Prudhomme. / AFP
• El director del Tour de Francia, Christian Prudhomme, cree que «el ciclismo está limpiando su deporte»
• DV | SAN SEBASTIÁN. 30 septiembre 201607:55
«Sabíamos que todos los tramposos y los mentirosos en esta tierra no se reunieron un día para decidir que iban a centrarse en el mundo del ciclismo», ha explicado el director del Tour de Francia, Christian Prudhomme, en una entrevista a Reuters en su visita a algunas de las etapas de la ruta del Tour 2017, que se presentará oficialmente el 18 de octubre.
«El ciclismo ha estado limpiando su deporte, haciendo su trabajo. No ha sido fácil, pero lo ha estado haciendo». Incidió en que «queremos que el deporte sea perfecto, mientras que la sociedad nunca lo será. La sociedad no está llena de santos, ni tampoco
de delincuentes. En todos los sitios hay de todo», comentó Prudhomme, al que desde que es director del Tour le ha tocado lidiar con un buen número de casos de dopaje en la carrera, algo que no ha sucedido en la presente edición de la prueba.
Cuando llegó en 2006 le cogió la Operación Puerto. También tuvo problemas en los Tours de 2007, 2008, y 2010. Desde ese año se implantó el pasaporte biológico, lo que ayudó mucho a controlar los asuntos de dopaje en el ciclismo y en el deporte en general.
«Corredores con pedigrí»
«Hasta hace poco, el ciclismo se ha visto como un deporte muy cerrado, pero ya no lo es. La gente habla», comentó Prudhomme, que también dijo que «ocho días antes del inicio del Tour tenía miedo de que los rumores que había sobre ciertos asuntos echarían a perder la carrera. Luego, cuando el secretario de Estado anunció el uso de cámaras para vigilar las bicicletas, me sentí aliviado», dijo Prudhomme. El posible uso de motores en las bicicletas asaltó de dudas a los organizadores de la prueba durante mucho tiempo.
El debate sobre el posible abuso de Autorizaciones Uso Terapéutico (AUT) por el ganador del Tour 2012 Bradley Wiggins no perturba Prudhomme: «Estoy feliz de ver que el clima es mucho menos apasionado de lo que solía ser», dijo, añadiendo que la percepción pública del ciclismo había cambiado, «afortunadamente».
«No se ve ya campeones que vienen de la nada. Nairo Quintana ganó la Vuelta y había sido tercero en el Tour. Froome ha ganado en tres ocasiones el Tour y fue segundo en la Vuelta. Esteban Chaves, igual. Los dos brillaron en el Tour del Porvenir y eso es tranquilizador. Hace unos años teníamos la sensación de que era necesario un cambio. Ahora, no».
http://www.diariovasco.com/deportes/ciclismo/201609/30/queremos-deporte-perfecto-sociedad-20160930001535-v.html
DIARIO VASCO.COM ATLETISMO
La apuesta por «el gran salto del atletismo español»
Candidato. Raúl Chapado, en Anoeta, donde presentó su programa electoral. / MICHELENA
• Raúl Chapado, olímpico en Sídney 2000, presentó su candidatura «no continuista» a presidente de la RFEA en San Sebastián
• KAREL LÓPEZ 30 septiembre 201608:05
Haciendo alusión a su larga y exitosa carrera deportiva -llegó a poseer el récord de España de triple salto bajo techo durante 17 años-, Raúl Chapado (Ávila, 1970) visitó San Sebastián, donde comenzó su «carrera deportiva de primer nivel», para presentar su candidatura a la presidencia de la Real Federación Española de Atletismo. «Un gran salto para el atletismo español», así lo define él. «Quiero construir una federación del siglo XXI. Apuesto por la evolución; no por la revolución».
«El atletismo es mi pasión; lo ha sido todo en mi vida», asegura el olímpico en Sídney 2000 y quien ahora, tras haber liderado las candidaturas de Madrid a los Juegos
Olímpicos de 2016 y 2020, es una de las tres opciones -también se presentan el catalán Manel González y el gallego Isidoro Hornillos- para reemplazar a José María Odriozola al frente de la RFEA.
«Mis medidas no son continuistas», cuenta. Cuestionado por si fue el propio Odriozola -deja la RFEA tras casi 30 años al frente- quien le pidió que se presentara, el abulense es claro: «No hablé con él antes de decidir presentarme. No fue, ni mucho menos, su idea. También es cierto que no fue mía. Ser presidente de la RFEA no era una ambición personal. Pero gente de mi entorno me decía que por mi perfil podría acabar siéndolo... Y me decidí. Creo que supone una tremenda responsabilidad que estoy dispuesto a asumir. Vengo de un atletismo humilde y he conocido prácticamente todas las facetas de este deporte. Además, pienso que presento unas credenciales que van más allá de lo deportivo».
Quince veces campeón de España de triple salto y dominador durante prácticamente una década entera de la compleja especialidad -entre 1996 y 2003 ganó todos los estatales al aire libre-, Chapado, que se retiró en junio del año 2004, está inmerso ahora en tratar de conseguir apoyos para ganar las elecciones que se celebrarán el 26 de noviembre. Entre otras ideas, Chapado quiere «mirar al futuro, evolucionar, atraer a la juventud, asegurar la credibilidad e integridad del deporte, comunicar más y mejor y dar el retorno adecuado a los patrocinadores. Para eso propongo la elaboración de un plan estratégico a cuatro años. Lo que no quiero es prometer cosas que no se pueden cumplir. Para hacer promesas ya están los políticos».
El extriplista, comentarista técnico durante las emisiones de atletismo en los Juegos de Río para RTVE, se ha posicionado en multitud de ocasiones en contra del dopaje y considera que «habría que ampliar las sanciones. Es sencillo: además de más años, multa económica importante».
«Cid es muy válido»
En cuanto a su equipo de trabajo, Chapado asegura que su intención es «buscar a los mejores en cada momento». Cuestionado por la continuidad del donostiarra Ramón Cid como su director técnico en caso de ganar las elecciones, el exsaltador señala que «lo primero es ver si el actual es el modelo adecuado».
«Tenemos que analizar y decidir si tener un director técnico y responsables de área es la fórmula adecuada o no. De decidir que continuar con el modelo actual es lo correcto, Cid claro que es una persona más que válida», indica.
http://www.diariovasco.com/deportes/atletismo/201609/30/apuesta-gran-salto-atletismo-20160930001538-v.html
SIPSE.COM
Viernes, 30 de Septiembre del 2016
Futbol yucateco, en la mira del clembuterol Dieciséis equipos de México, entre ellos Venados FC, permanecen en alerta sanitaria por el fármaco usado para la engorda del ganado.
Ayer Jueves, 29 Sep, 2016 13:05 •
Yucatán se encuentra entre los diez estados futboleros, en riesgo por el Clembuterol, la sustancia que funciona para la engorda del ganado.(Milenio Novedades)
Milenio Digital CIUDAD DE MÉXICO.- Los estados de Jalisco, Hidalgo, Puebla, Chiapas, Querétaro, Guanajuato, Estado de México, Morelos, Quintana Roo y Yucatán afrontan el problema de carne contaminada con el fármaco clembuterol, lo que podría representar un riesgo para los clubes de la Liga Mx y el Ascenso Mx que ahí residen, luego de los 29 casos de Resultados Analíticos Adversos (RAA) por esa misma sustancia se arrojaron en controles internos de la Federación Mexicana de Futbol.
Los clubes de la Liga Mx que operan en dichas entidades son Chivas, Atlas, Pachuca, Puebla, Gallos Blancos de Querétaro, Jaguares de Chiapas, León y Toluca; mientras que del Ascenso Mx están Leones Negros, Lobos BUAP, Cafetaleros de Tapachula, Toros de Celaya, Zacatepec, Potros UAEM, Atlante y Venados.
Según un reporte de la Comisión Federal para la Protección contra Riesgos Sanitarios (Oficio: COS/1/UE/000434/2016), en estos estados la sustancia clembuterol representa un riesgo sanitario, tras la respuesta a la solicitud de acceso a la información pública que se le hizo a la dependencia, por medio del INAI, en relación a los registros que existieran entre el 2010 y 2015.
El documento focaliza el problema del clembuterol en 3 municipios de Guanajuato, 4 de Jalisco, 10 del Estado de México, 3 de Querétaro, 2 de Morelos, 1 de Hidalgo, 1 de Quintana Roo, 2 de Yucatán, 5 de Puebla, 1 de Chiapas, así como 2 de Guerrero, donde no hay futbol de Liga Mx ni del Ascenso Mx.
Informe de La Cofepris
La Cofepris puntualiza en el oficio que, "no obstante, lo anterior se informa que en los lugares referidos anteriormente se han aplicado medidas de seguridad con el fin de mitigar el riesgo sanitario y proteger la salud de la población".
El 25 de abril se dio a conocer la existencia de 29 RAA en el futbol mexicano, detectados por el laboratorio certificado de la Comisión Nacional de Cultura Física y Deporte entre los años 2011 y 2013.
Ese reporte que se puede localizar en laaficion.com detallaba que en el año 2010 fueron realizados 126 análisis.
Todos los controles corresponden a futbolistas registrados en la Femexfut; ninguno fue positivo en el 2010; en el 2011, de los 105 estudios, 6 fueron RAA; en el 2012, de 120 muestras, 3 fueron adversos y en el 2013 de 248, aumentó a 20.
De estos 29 casos el presidente de la Liga Mx, Enrique Bonilla, declaró que desde que en la Copa Oro del año 2011 Guillermo Ochoa, Francisco Maza Rodríguez, Sinha, Edgar Dueñas y Christian Hobbit Bermúdez arrojaron positivo por clembuterol, "estamos muy cerca de la FIFA y muy cerca de la Agencia Mundial Antidopaje, porque es un problema de clembuterol, no es un problema de dopaje vía una sustancia directa, sino que es a través de la ingesta por alimentación".
El directivo de la FMF también admitió que existen más casos, no precisados por la Femexfut, de los 2014, 2015 y del año en curso, aunque atajó que "son casos que están bajo control", y que se trabajan de la Liga Mx "o del Ascenso".
http://sipse.com/deportes/futbol-mexicano-problemas-clembuterol-ascenso-venados-yucatan-224173.html
SPORT OLIMPISMO
El CIO se prepara para una cumbre olímpica en Lausana El CIO anunció que el 8 de octubre hará un profundo debate sobre la actualidad
Thomas Bach, presidente del CIO, presidirá la cumbre olímpica AFP
EFE
28-9-2016 | 12:51 H.
El Comité Internacional Olímpico (CIO) llevará a cabo una cumbre olímpica el próximo 8 de octubre en la ciudad de Lausana (Suiza), según informó el organismo deportivo mediante un comunicado oficial. "Las discusiones se enfocarán en la protección de los atletas limpios y, específicamente, en una revisión del sistema antidopaje de la Agencia Mundial Antidopaje. La cumbre olímpica debatirá sobre algunas ideas para hacer más robusto, más eficiente y más independiente a nivel mundial al sistema antidopaje", explicó la nota. Además, el COI afirmó que tiene la intención de "reforzar" la "petición" de la cumbre olímpica de octubre del 2015 para "volver independiente de las organizaciones deportivas a todo el sistema antidopaje". En la cumbre también se realizará un primer análisis sobre el "éxito de los Juegos Olímpicos de Río 2016". Al evento asistirán diversas autoridades del mundo del deporte: el alemán Thomas Bach, presidente del COI, y todo su gabinete ejecutivo; el suizo Gianni Infantino, presidente de la FIFA; el británico Sebastian Coe, presidente de la Federación Internacional de Atletismo (IAAF); los presidentes de los Comités Olímpicos de Estados Unidos, Rusia y China; entre otros.
http://www.sport.es/es/noticias/mas-deportes/el-cio-se-prepara-para-una-cumbre-olimpica-en-lausana-5424286
WADA September 29, 2016
WADA publishes 2017 Prohibited List
Today, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) publishes the 2017 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods; along with, the 2017 Summary of Major Modifications and Explanatory Notes. The List - which designates what substances and methods are prohibited both in- and out-of-competition, and which substances are banned in particular sports - was approved by the Executive Committee on 21 September and comes into force on 1 January 2017.
“WADA is pleased to publish the 2017 Prohibited List, which is one of five International Standards that are mandatory for all signatories of the World Anti-Doping Code (Code) to follow,” said WADA President, Sir Craig Reedie. “All athletes around the world are held to these standards and there can be no tolerance for people who intentionally break the rules,” Reedie continued. “Updated annually, the List is released three months ahead of taking effect so that all stakeholders – in particular athletes and their entourage -- have ample time to familiarize themselves with the List and its modifications,” he said.
“The Prohibited List follows a very extensive stakeholder review process over the course of nine months,” said Director General, Olivier Niggli. “In reviewing the List, experts examine such sources as: scientific and medical research; trends; and, intelligence gathered from law enforcement and pharmaceutical companies in order to stay ahead of those that wish to cheat,” Niggli continued. “It is vital that all athletes take the necessary time to consult the List; and that, they contact their respective anti-doping organizations (ADOs) if they have any doubts as to the status of a substance or method,” said Niggli.
The List’s annual revision process is led by WADA, beginning with an initial meeting in January and concluding with the publication of the List by 1 October. This is an extensive nine-month consultation process which includes gathering information, circulating a draft list, stakeholder submissions, committee recommendations and the approval of the List by WADA’s Executive Committee during its September meeting.
It should be noted that, for athletes who have a legitimate medical reason for using a prohibited substance or method that is on the List, they can be accommodated via the International Standard for Therapeutic Use Exemptions (ISTUE), which has overwhelming acceptance from athletes, physicians and anti-doping stakeholders worldwide.
To view the changes made to the 2017 Prohibited List, please see the 2017 Summary of Major Modifications and Explanatory Notes.
Languages and Formats
As of today, the 2017 Prohibited List, the Summary of Modifications, and the 2017 Monitoring Program are available for download on WADA’s website in English. French and Spanish will follow shortly.
Stakeholders wishing to translate the List into other languages are kindly asked to signal their interest at [email protected], by 23 October.
As has been the case in past years, the List will be made available as an iPhone app and on other mobile devices effective 1 January 2017.
https://www.wada-ama.org/en/media/news/2016-09/wada-publishes-2017-prohibited-list
IOC wants retraction from Tass as Russian doping 'cold war' takes new turn Olympics - 27 Sep 2016
By Callum Murray
The ‘cold war’ that has broken out over doping in Russian sport took a new turn on Tuesday, with the International Olympic Committee demanding a retraction from Tass, the Russian news agency, over its version of an interview that Thomas Bach, the IOC president, gave to Japan’s Yomiuri newspaper.
Tass reported Bach as having told Yomiuri that he “still cannot understand” why Russian track and field athletes were sanctioned at the Rio Olympics. Virtually all Russian track and field athletes were banned from competing in Rio by the IAAF, the sport’s world governing body, in the wake of a major ‘state-supported’ doping scandal in the country.
The IOC itself resisted strong pressure to ban the Russian team in its entirety from the games, preferring instead to hand over to the respective international federations the decision on which Russian athletes were eligible to compete.
Bach is reported by Tass as saying: "Concerning suspicions of possible deviations in the Russian anti-doping system, I still cannot understand why Russian athletes had to be subjected to sanctions at the Summer Games. If there were violations, they were committed by federations, to which athletes in summer sports disciplines have no relation.”
However, the IOC told Sportcal: “The quote is totally inaccurate and does not reflect what the President actually said during the interview with the Yomiuri.”
The interview was conducted in the context of the recent leaks of athletes’ confidential medical data by the Russia-based Fancy Bears cyber-hacking team, which alleges that a range of top western athletes, aided and abetted by the World
Anti-Doping Agency, have been abusing the therapeutic use exemption system to gain access to banned substances.
In relation to Fancy Bears, the IOC told Sportcal that Bach said in the interview: “We have condemned and will condemn this hacking attack. We are co-operating directly with WADA, I am in direct contact with WADA.”
Bach then went on to address the issue of sanctions against Russian athletes, according to the IOC, saying: “The IOC had to take a decision of justice. This is what we did. In the interests of all the clean athletes.
“Such a decision can be criticised. We have never had such a difficult decision where 100 per cent of the world is applauding - and this is not what we expected. Different continental athletes’ representatives were supporting this decision, as were athletes representing IFs who were also supporting. The public opinion, we also got very positive responses. Worldwide audiences understood what IOC was doing – we were doing justice, justice for the athletes.”
Bach then said, according to the IOC: “I still cannot see a reason to sanction summer sport athletes for irregularities or alleged irregularities in the anti-doping system committed by a system of which he is not part or by a winter sport.
“This is an issue of credibility – at the end of the day you have to look into the eyes of the athletes when you take such a decision. You can do this when you take a decision for justice and this is what we did. Our decision was not a political decision.”
The Tass report also implied that Bach criticised the MacLaren report, the independent report commissioned by WADA which contained many of the allegations of state-supported doping in Russia.
Bach is reported by Tass to have said that “Richard McLaren himself said that the investigation has not been finished yet… Before punishing, one should hear out the other side - the side of athletes. And this is what lacks in McLaren’s investigation.”
However, the IOC told Sportcal that what Bach actually said was: “Mr McLaren himself said it was an interim support and needs more time. That is why IOC supported the extension of his mandate. Also for every legal procedure according to all legal systems and human rights, [you] need to give the other side the right
to be heard and present their case. This has not been done by McLaren. This is what the IOC will do with the Canivet Commission under the leadership of one of France’s leading judges.”
Earlier this month, WADA accused the Russian embassy in the UK of “choosing to propagate misinformation about data that was illegally obtained by a group emanating out of Russia.”
WADA was responding to a series of tweets on the Russian embassy’s Twitter feed that appeared to take Fancy Bears at face value in their accusations.
WADA said that it found the embassy’s behaviour “unfortunate” and added that: “Instead, we would like to see the Russian Government doing everything in its power to stop the attacks so that we can get on with rebuilding a compliant anti-doping program in Russia.”
Russian officials have claimed that Russian sport has been the victim of a political vendetta, a claim repeated by a Russian reporter at a press conference on the eve of the Rio Olympics who asked Bach: “Was it [the sanctioning of Russian athletes] a political attack on our sportsmen?”
Bach responded: "Those who say it is political should take note of the facts. There was a very serious report [the McLaren report] with detailed allegations against the Moscow laboratory and the Russian ministry of sport. When taking this decision, these allegations played a major role in why we also took measures against people implicated. This is why no official of the Russian sports ministry, from the sports minister down, will receive accreditation [to the games].”
http://www.sportcal.com/News/FeaturedNews/106493
Cyclingtips Calls made for WADA to examine Wiggins TUE corticosteroid controversy by Shane Stokes
September 30, 2016
Photography by Cor Vos
First Bradley Wiggins and then Dave Brailsford broke long silences in recent days, insisting that they did nothing wrong. The duo were speaking separately in relation to the administration of three corticosteroid injections before the 2011 and 2012 Tours de France and the 2013 Giro d’Italia, Wiggins’ prime targets in each of those seasons.
Their defence was simple. No rules were broken, each insisted, because others in authority gave a green light to receive the shots. We applied for Therapeutic Use Exemptions [TUEs], we got them, end of story.
Except it isn’t. There remains a lingering unease about the situation, not only amongst those who follow cycling but also mainstream journalists who covered the story and the public who follow it. When Team Sky was founded it promised to be whiter than white; at the very least, the injection of a powerful corticosteroid days before Wiggins’ 2012 Tour de France victory was dancing in the grey area.
The unease about the data exposed by Russian hackers is heightened by Wiggins’ insistence in his 2012 autobiography My Time that he had never received any injections, other than vaccinations and occasional drips. His attempt to explain away this inconsistency on Saturday appeared clumsy, while Brailsford’s claim not to know corticosteroids were performance-enhancing was similarly unconvincing.
Now calls have been made for WADA to look into the matter, with a cycling whistleblower and a federation doctor asking the anti-doping agency to examine the circumstances of those injections.
Former professional rider and admitted past doper Joerg Jaksche is one who has spoken about the use of the corticosteroid Triamcinolone acetonide, the substance given to Wiggins. He said earlier this month that it has potent performance enhancing effects and that riders in his era would deliberately exaggerate claims of illness or injury to get a TUE for it.
Speaking to CyclingTips this week, the German said that it was important to discern if Wiggins’ use of the corticosteroid was proportional and also correctly sanctioned.
“To be honest, I think WADA should investigate,” he said. “WADA should follow up this information. It should ask if there is a chance that somebody applied for this TUE for cortisone without having this disease, or without really needing to take this injection? That is the main thing for me.”
One worrying aspect of Wiggins’ explanation is that he finished fourth overall in the 2009 Tour de France while using only inhalers for his asthma. These are a milder form of treatment which don’t have the same performance boosting and weight reducing effects as injections.
The question exists: why were inhalers good enough in 2009, but not in 2011, 2012 and 2013?
In talking about the decision to seek a TUE for Triamcinolone acetonide, Wiggins said on Saturday that his breathing had been off in the build-up to those Grand Tours.
As several have pointed out, there is once again a contradiction contained within the pages of My Time.
“I’d done all the work, I was fine-tuned,” he stated there about the period before the 2012 Tour. “I was ready to go. My body was in good shape. I’m in the form of my life. I was only ill once or twice with minor colds, and I barely lost a day’s training from it.”
Indeed he won the Critérium du Dauphiné in both 2011 and 2012, finishing over a minute clear of his nearest rivals on both occasions. Reconciling this with his claims of breathing problems is difficult.
Jaksche said that proof should be provided at this point.
“We have to trust doctors that they don’t come up with a fake illness,” he said. “I had allergies and I went to a specialist and they would do [skin]prick tests and breathing tests. I am wondering where all this documentation is. There must be documentation.
“If you look at Calum Skinner’s case [note: Skinner is a Olympic gold-medal winning track sprinter who also had TUE files leaked], he has delivered all the information that he had dating back to when he was about five years of age. It is all justified and all good.
“Right now, Bradley Wiggins’ case looks more like, ‘ah, you have allergies, take cortisone and it can also help you for riding.’ It is a very weird situation. Without the documentation, I don’t trust them.
“We know Team Sky’s approach – marginal gains, testing everything, blah blah. If there is no documentation, it could be a false medical justification. In that case, you get punished with a four year ban.”
Jaksche is referring to the section of the UCI’s anti-doping rules setting out the regulations for the criteria for granting a Therapeutic Use Exemption.
These rules include the following:
2) The Rider would experience a significant impairment to health if the Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method were to be withheld in the course of treating an acute or chronic medical condition.
3) The therapeutic use of the Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method would produce no additional enhancement of performance other than that which might be anticipated by a return to a state of normal health following the treatment of a legitimate medical condition.
4) There is no reasonable therapeutic alternative to the use of the otherwise Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method.
What this boils down to is simple: if injections were not necessary, if any breathing difficulties could have been eliminated by milder treatments, then Wiggins and the team may have broken the rules.
“The risk-benefit ratio for steroid injections is unacceptable”
Conor McGrane is a medical doctor based in Dublin, Ireland, and who has worked for many years as Cycling Ireland federation doctor. He has given his opinion on the Wiggins case and, like Jaksche, also has some concerns.
“It is very disappointing the way they have all reacted to it,” he said, referring to Wiggins and Brailsford. “I think Wiggins’ main problem is that he dug a hole for himself by releasing the autobiography with the comment on injections.
“Sky dug a hole for themselves by having comments made through David Walsh [the journalist who was embedded with the team and wrote Inside Team Sky – ed.] that they weren’t going to be using TUEs in competition and they weren’t going to be using things like cortisone. Then it turns out they obviously were.
“They are basically now saying, ‘well, we did everything within the rules and it is okay.’ I just think it is unfortunate when you see people pushing things towards the limit to the rules, and also using medications which are effective when they are used properly, but then using them for things that really don’t warrant it.”
McGrane points out that corticosteroid injections are not permitted by the Irish Sports Council, and that in medicine they are generally advised against due to health problems such as osteoporosis and avascular necrosis, as well as mood issues, psychological problems, plus sleep and weight disturbances.
“It is considered to be bad practice now,” he told CyclingTips. “Certainly with the use of modern medications and treatments, it is thought that there are any number of effective modern safe treatments out there. The actual phrase that is used [in medicine] is that the risk-benefit ratio for steroid injections is unacceptable.”
McGrane states that inhalers, the course of treatment used by Wiggins en route to fourth in the 2009 Tour, are generally effective at treating asthma and
allergies. If the inhalers don’t work well enough for any reason, he points out there are other alternatives.
“You can use products such as anti-histamines and steroid nasal sprays for allergic rhinitis, and medications like Singulair to treat both asthma and allergies. These don’t have the same side-effects as steroids.
“There are strong guidelines from the British Association of Allergy and Clinical Immunology for the treatment of allergic rhinitis. They say quite clearly that injections should really only be used as a last resort, and even then that the side effects probably outweigh any beneficial effects.”
McGrane’s concerns are echoed by Dr Armand Megret, an expert for the Movement for Credible Cycling group.
“There is no logic in injecting yourself with Kenacort [Triamcinolone acetonide] before the start of a Grand Tour,” he told L’Equipe this week.
“It does not make sense that such a champion with such team with such an organized staff can take corticoids so casually.”
Like Jaksche, McGrane wants WADA to look into the matter.
“I think it is very fair to want that to happen,” he states. “On some levels we have to take it at face value that Wiggins applied for it, went through the proper circles, got approval for it and took it. I think we can theorise more than that, but they are effectively facts that we can state with certainty.
“But I think Joerg Jaksche’s suggestion is what needs to happen. I think that WADA needs to do two things. One, they need to publish anonymised data on TUEs granted for medications per sport and per region, so we can compare how many TUEs for cortisone have been granted in cycling compared to running compared to tennis. Also, how many are being issued from Russia compared to GB compared to Ireland. That is data that they could publish quite easily without identifying any athletes.
“And I also thing that we are really at a position where we need to have a clinical audit committee set up to examine the granting of TUEs. So it is not just the fact that you have a three panel committee examining each one. You really need to have a clinical committee reviewing the decisions of that committee each time.
To make sure, one, that the committee met, that they all came to the decision, and also basically to see if they stand up at all, if they are consistent throughout sports and regions.”
“The TUE system looks like it is a nonsense”
When the Wiggins request was granted, there was the scope for a three-man committee to make judgements on TUEs. However in reality many TUEs were granted by the UCI’s-then scientific advisor and doctor Mario Zorzoli.
This happened when Team Sky’s Chris Froome was fast-tracked a TUE for the corticosteroid prednisolone prior to the 2014 Tour de Romandie. He complained of breathing problems and went on to win the event.
Zorzoli alone also signed off on Wiggins’ three TUE forms.
The doctor was suspended in January 2015 when, in the course of the investigation into former Rabobank doctor Geert Leinders, former pro Michael Rasmussen made claims against him.
Rasmussen said that after the UCI had raised issues in relation to his incriminating blood readings, that Leinders had met Zorzoli to discuss the issue. Rasmussen subsequently said that Leinders had told him that ‘Rabobank was a team that had “butter on its head”…meaning that all the doping related problems the team had would slide off. And he called me now the most protected rider in the race.”
The former Tour de France King of the Mountains also alleged that in either 2004 or 2005 he was told by Leinders that Zoroli had recommended that Leinders give Rabobank riders the banned substance DHEA because ‘all the other teams are doing it as well.’
Zorzoli was ultimately cleared by the UCI and returned to work in March 2015. He left the post in July of that year.
If an investigation into the Wiggins TUE was to be carried out by WADA, Zorzoli would be a logical interviewee. So too the rider himself, as well as Brailsford.
Jaksche struggles to believe the Sky team principal’s statement in relation to the boosting effects of the injections.
“I found it very funny when Brailsford said that he didn’t know cortisone is performance enhancing. You have to say, ‘okay, then why is the product on the doping list?’
“In that case, I’d like to ask him where he did his MBA. Because I don’t want to go to that university.”
For McGrane, the whole situation is an example of how things need to change. “The TUE system looks like it is a nonsense,” he says.
“Looking at the Wiggins situation, if he had taken a short course of oral steroids, they would have been as effective but not as long acting. It would basically been a more proportional response.
“I think at this point in time, you can’t retrospectively change what happened. You can’t undo a TUE. But what you can do is go back and see if the decision and the approval stands up.
“That doesn’t necessary have to be made public; a good clinical audit is often considered to be something that is done without pointing fingers. But I think that as a learning process and as a way of approving practice and making sure decision making is more consistent and fair and stricter in the future…for a start, having the three person committee meeting is vital. Having one person sign off on this is bonkers.
“You could argue for Froome’s TUEs that he couldn’t have waited for the TUE committee to meet because it was so urgent. But if that was the case, he shouldn’t be competing. He is too sick to compete.
“Really, there is no excuse for the three person committee not meeting. But also that committee – their actions should be reviewed and examined as well. And that should be an ongoing process.”
He’s clear in his belief that the past needs to be studied and changes need to be made. He also believes that Sky has suffered a serious – and likely lasting – knock to its self-declared whiter than white stance.
“That reputation is definitely damaged,” he says. “It is like virginity – you can only lose it once! Once it is gone it is gone…”
http://cyclingtips.com/2016/09/calls-made-for-wada-to-examine-wiggins-tue-corticosteroid-controversy/
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It’s been 11 years since Lance Armstrong won his last Tour de France. In the intervening years, cycling has undergone a series of reforms aimed at making the sport, above all else, trustworthy. Lance Armstrong became one of the most hated athletes of all time not because he cheated, but because his pathological need to be believed led him to lie on national television, threaten the wives of his teammates, and make militantly haughty commercials for Nike. He was never sorry; his downfall didn’t come down to his doping, it was because of the lying.
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A decade removed from Armstrong’s USPS teams throttling pelotons into submission, the cycling world has finally found a successor. British powerhouse Team Sky has only been around for seven years, and they’ve already won the Tour de France four times. Chris Froome is the most dominant Grand Tour rider since Armstrong. Their budget is at least twice that of most of their competitors. Thanks to the systemic cover-up perpetrated by USPS, every dominant cycling team from here to eternity will be plagued by doping questions, and part of what sets Team Sky apart is an apparently ironclad commitment to clean cycling.
Manager David Brailsford has hailed the value of “marginal gains” and the team has insisted that all riders sign a written pledge denying any past or present involvement with doping. Anyone who steps afoul of that rule gets booted off the team, like Jonathan Tiernan-Locke did in 2013 amid uncertainty about his biological passport (which is a tracking system that measures certain physiological values over time). As Brailsford himself said in 2011, “The whole point of our team is to try and demonstrate that it is possible to cycle clean and compete at the highest level.”
The degree to which that is true is now under question. Russian hackers released WADA records showing a series of oddly timed therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) that Sky obtained for Froome and 2012 Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins. A TUE allows an athlete permission to take otherwise illegal drugs (in those case, corticosteroids) for legitimate medical reasons (pollen allergies for Wiggins, asthma for Froome).
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The data show that Froome obtained TUEs to use prednisolone before the 2013 Criterium Dauphine and the 2014 Tour of Romandie. The UCI fast-tracked both applications, allowing Froome to race (and eventually win) both times. Wiggins received a number of TUEs to use an inhaler before certain races as far back as 2008, but more intriguingly, Wiggins received TUEs just days before the 2011 and 2012 Tours de France and the 2014 Diro d’Italia for an intramuscular injection of triamcinolone acetonide. Typically, such an injection requires eight days off from racing; in the 2011 case, the TUE was approved three days before the Tour started. As CyclingNews notes, triamcinolone acetonide is seen as the most powerful drug used to treat hay fever; it certainly comes with a performance advantage, and cycling star Tom Dumoulin has already publicly said that Wiggins’s case “stinks.”
Nothing here shows that Team Sky cheated. Former Vuelta a España winner Chris Horner told me last year that the process of getting a TUE is intensely regulated, and that the UCI had been overly thorough with insuring that medicine he took to treat a bronchitis infection abided by its regulations. Froome had publicly acknowledged his 2013 TUE before the hack, and has come out and called for stricter TUE regulations.
However, these steroids are powerful and Wiggins’s case in particular is cloudy. Team Sky stayed silent in the immediate aftermath of the leak. Despite their very public hardline stance against doping, Sky never joined the MPCC (an organization of teams
that self-impose harsher drug testing in an effort to improve cycling’s image. This leak seems to explain why: The MPCC has asked the UCI to ban corticosteroids, and Sky was using them. The MPCC has since called out Team Sky.
Sky may not have run afoul of any UCI or WADA regulations here (in fact, the leaked documents reflect as poorly on both organizations as they do on Team Sky), but just like the Armstrong case, this is about optics. Doubt is an endemic feature of modern cycling. You are guilty until proven innocent, which is incredibly hard to accomplish without complete transparency into every facet of your medical life. If you are the most dominant team of your era and you go out of your way to make yourself out to be anti-doping crusaders, any dip into cycling’s many legal grey areas makes you look like a hypocrite.
All of which is to say that if you can’t trust Team Sky you can’t trust anyone. Maybe you shouldn’t.
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Cycling fandom is an exercise in carefully suspended disbelief. Because of the audacity with which Armstrong and his team scaled up their doping operation, nobody will ever get the benefit of the doubt again, and as the current Team Sky clusterfuck shows, regulatory grey areas exist to be inhabited by aggressive teams. The problem is not with Team Sky for going after TUEs. It’s their right to exploit the advantages the system allows them. WADA is a broken (and apparently hackable) farce of an operation and the UCI remains credible only so long as they appear to have a handle on doping. If the supposed poster child for credible cycling can’t help but push the boundaries of acceptable physiological enhancements, then any prohibitions on doping aren’t so firm as everyone wants you to believe.
Any belief that the top level of cycling is completely clean is a delusion, and another Armstrong-scale doping ring is an existential threat. Cycling’s biggest problem is that nobody watches cycling (just look at the incredible sponsorship turnover over the past few years and the UCI getting in bed with increasingly shady people in an effort to dowse whatever quarries are left to mine.). If the sport were to lose what little credibility it has left, survival becomes a problem.
The only rules Team Sky broke, if indeed they broke any, were their own. They are still far more transparent than many other teams, and that’s the problem. The UCI is caught between two untenable positions: clamp down even harder on doping and chase the bogeyman until it goes away (it won’t), or widen the grey area and make the sport easier to regulate and harder to trust.
http://deadspin.com/trusting-anyone-in-cycling-is-a-losers-game-1787243451
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AMENO. Juan Gutiérrez, Tomás de Cos, Luis Nieto, Alfredo Relaño,Alejandro Blanco, Roncero,]esús Mínguez, Matallanas,]uan Mora, Samaranch, Pedro Ferrándiz y Cherna Bellón.
"La propuesta de Madrid 2020 influyó en el COl" Juan Antonio Samaranch, vicepresidente del COI, visitó AS
~ Juan Antonio Samaranch
Salisach (Barcelona , 56 años) ha dejado de ser el }ú· nioro Juanito , como se le nom· braba en el mundillo olímpico. El hijo del presidente del Comi· té Olímpico lnter·
Con fama de diplomático, evitó los rodeos. Habló directo.
Río 2016 comenzó en agos· to con todo tipo de malos au· gurios, porque objetivamente la situación social de Brasil había cambiado mucho res· pecto a 2009 , cuando los ob· tuvo. "Contrariamente a lo que
la gente pensaba , nacional que revo· lucionó el deporte fue elegido en Río, 24 horas antes de que Vanderlei de Lima encendiera el pebetero en Ma· racaná, vicepresi· dente del COl con 69 votos a favor y sólo seis en con· tra. Está sólo un escalón por debajo de Thomas Bach, o
Río 2016 salieron muy bien. A pesar de que desde medios de Estados Unidos se puso todo muy difí· cil con la amenaza del virus del Zika. ¡Pero buscar un mosquito en agos· to en Río es como en Madrid en febre· ro , no hay! No exis· tió ni un amago de
"Brasil consiguió un milagro, sin efectivo y
sin políticos. Salió bien"
del que ocupó su progenitor en· tre 1980 y el 2001. Señal de que su peso en el cónclave de 98 miembros que actúa como un potente gobierno con tentá· culos por todo el mundo crece y crece. Ayer visitó AS para dar su visión de los Juegos de Río, de otra posible candidatura de Madrid, del dopaje, de Rusia ..
cambiar de sede. Confiamos en la Organización Mundial de la Salud, que nos dijo que no había posibilidad de pandemia. Y no se dio ni un caso. Ahora hay más de un centenar en Florida y nadie ha planteado bloquear a Estados Unidos", se quejó.
Para Samaranch , que no negó que la seguridad fue una SEÑOR DE LOS ANILLOS.]uanAntonio Samaranch]1:
gran preocupación, lo que hizo Río fue " un milagro". "Cuando Brasil obtuvo los Juegos era una potencia y Lula da Silva un héroe mundial, y luego les tocó organizarlos sin un duro, sin cash y sin políticos porque no había gobierno", recapituló. "Hubo que reducir el nivel de exigencia. De 14.000 coches, a 7.000. La mitad de volunta· rios , de comidas ... Y se comu· nicó bien en Brasil , porque un país en situación de pobreza no podía ver a la familia olím· pica viviendo a todo tren " , re· flexionó.
Lochte. Para lo que preveía, Río no dejó mal sabor de boca. Salvo episodios que pasaron a categoría de anécdota. Como la simulación de atraco por parte de Ryan Lochte: " Lo ha pagado carísimo con una san· ción de un año , un problema judicial y la pérdida de un mi· llón de dólares de patrocina· dores " . O el agua verde de la pileta de saltos: "Nunca nos di· jeron qué pasó. Parece que se acabó un producto".
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INTERÉS. El vicepresidente del COI preguntó a Alfredo Re laño por la percepción y el seguimiento que habían tenido los juegos de Río en España.
''A Madrid se la recibiría con algarabía otra vez"
El modelo de Juegos que ofreció es el que quieren para el futuro Viene de la pág. 33 ••• crisis de credibilidad que se ha siones en infraestructuras he· más difícil -explica el vicepre· Tokio ahora ha reducido
extendido por todo el mundo chas. "Una clave de que haya sidente-. Pero tendría que ha· drásticamente su presupuesto Madrid compitió contra Río. y que ha provocado que para menos candidatas es la percep- ber un proyecto que entusias· y ha cambiado sedes. Ganó con
Y perdió. Y frente a Tokio para 2024 fueran retractándose ciu· ción de que eran necesarias in· mara a todos. Y un alcalde que una propuesta que no se mate· el 2020. Y cayó. "Si no eres dades: Toronto, Hamburgo, aho· versiones faraónicas " . Pero en crea en los Juegos y los encaje rializará. ¿No fue una estafa? español, la decisión de no dar ra Roma ... Para los de Invierno diciembre de 2014, el COl apro· en su proyecto político y social , "Su proyecto ha sido desman· a España esos últimos Juegos de 2022 sólo compitieron Pekín bó un programa de reformas, la como hizo Pasqual Maragall. telado, sí", reconoce el barcelo· la entiendes. Era muy compli· (e legida) y Almaty. Agenda 2020 , que propugna Me da igual que sea de Pode· nés. "Pero eso entra dentro de cado porque el país estaba en "Pero el legado de Madrid para el futuro el modelo de Jue· m os o del PP". la filosofía de la Agenda 2020. la portada de todos los perió· 2020 ha calado en el COl. Su gos con el que Madrid salió de· "Haría falta estabilidad políti· No nos podemos permitir un dicos internacionales por la cri· propuesta ha influido decisiva· rrotada en Buenos Aires. ca y económica" , apoyó Blanco. fiasco de legado. Y eso debe in· sis y con la amenaza de un res· mente", reconoció el vicepre· "Adaptar los Juegos a la "No podemos dejar de hablar centivar a que se presenten ciu· cate" , contó Samaranch. sidente. Era austera, con casi ciudad y no la ciudad a los del sueño olímpico. Luego que· dades más pequeñas, que sea
¿Merece la pena volver a in· todo construido, con las inve r· Juegos" , recuerda Alejandro daría evaluar el momento". más asequible. Antes, el cuerpo tentarlo? " El COl recibiría con Blanco, presidente del Comité electoral era más influenciable algarabía una candidatura de
Reconocimiento Olímpico Español y de esa in·
Cambios con barbaridades. Ahora, que ni
Madrid", responde. Pero mati· tentona. "La verdad es que te intenten proponer algo que no za: "Cuando preguntas al cuer· "Lees la Agenda lees la Agenda 2020 y parece "Antes, el cuerpo tenga encaje en el desarrollo de po electoral tres veces sobre calcada de la candidatura de la ciudad. Además, el COl no lle· tu propuesta y te dicen que no, 2020 y parece Madrid, pero llegó tarde", reco· electoral era más ga con un capazo a llevarse el debes parar. La próxima vez la noció Samaranch, que reside dinero; sino que aporta 1.300 pregunta debe ser distinta, ha· calcada a Madrid, desde 1989 en la capital. influenciable con millones de dólares y el presu· bría que refrescar el proyecto". pero llegó tarde" El horizonte , en cualquier barbaridades" puesto de organización está en
Ese no a Madrid dejó un halo caso, sería el de 2028 o 2032. torno a los 5.000. Al final hay de frustración hacia el COl, una "Si en 2024 van a Europa sería beneficio, aunque sea poco" .
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Choque con AMA "Fuimos muy críticos y lo
seremos más" Rusia
"Los laboratorios eran Sodoma y
Gomarra"
El peso de Samaranch en el COl, al que llegó en 2001 cuando se jubiló su padre procedente del COE y la Federación Internacional de Pentatlón, se mide por el encargo que le encomendó Bach, junto al turco Ugur Erdener y la alemana Claudia Bokel: decidir sobre la participación de deportistas rusos en Río tras conocerse el informe Melaren de dopaje de Estado en Rusia. Compitieron 271 y vetaron a 116. Y se abrió una brecha con la Agencia Mundial Antidopaje.
"Fuimos muy críticos con la AMA y lo seremos más (el día 8 hay convocada una cumbre en Lausana). A ellos se les supone la responsabilidad sobre lo que sucede en los laboratorios internacionales. En sus laboratorios de Sochi y Moscú saltaron las alarmas y luego se comprobó
Dopaje "Soy optimista;
los test se guardan diez años" Reanálisis
"Ahora hay que ser un tonto o un loco
para doparse"
que eran Sodoma y Gomorra. No me vale que en un momento de pánico señalaran al COl. Deberían ser más eficaces con lo que hacen. Queremos revisar el sistema antidopaje, hacerlo más independiente del mundo del deporte. Y eso será una batalla complicada ", expuso con crudeza.
Su padre siempre se mostró pesimista con el dopaje. El hijo, lo contrario. "Soy optimista. Ahora las muestras se congelan diez años. Antes de Río, analizamos 1.500 de Pekín y Londres y salieron 120 positivos. Es un mensaje. Hay que ser un tonto o un loco para doparse, porque la tecnología avanza y caerás" , advierte Samaranch. El nuevo señor de los anillos.
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olimoismo 13 5 JUAN ANTONIO SAMARANCfll~ EN AS
LA FOTO. Del despacho de Re laño cuelga la foto de Samaranch padre en la rotativa.
Su padre dio vida al primer número de AS
Encendió la rotativa e/5 de diciembre de 1967
Juan Antonio Samaranch vio en el despacho de Al
fredo Relaño la foto que dio inicio a la historia de AS. Su padre, entonces Delegado Nacional de Deportes, pulsó el botón que encendió la rotativa en la que se imprimió el primer número, el 5 de diciembre de 1967 junto al entonces director, Luis González Linares. "A lo largo de mis años de presidente del COl que me llevaron a los rincones más lejanos del planeta , cada mañana recibía , por correo aéreo o por fax, los recortes del diario AS para seguir fielmente la información deportiva española" , recordó el pope del olimpismo en un artículo con motivo del 40° aniversario del periódico.
Su hijo recordó que
de tres clubes de fútbol, Espanyol , Barcelona y Real Madrid por orden de antigüedad. Además del Real Club de Te-nls Barcelona, otro ecuestre ... Llevaba una tarjeta plastificada en su bolsillo con la relación y
Samaranch Sr. fue socio Luis González Linares y Samaranch.
el número de socio "y le gustaba mucho enseñarla".
Pedro Ferrándiz se interesó por la influencia de Ralmundo Saporta, directivo del Real Madrid , en la carrera de Juan Antonio Samaranch , que fue pro
clamado presidente del COl después de engrasar su candidatura desde el puesto de embajador en Moscú. Fue elegido precisamente en esa ciudad, en 1980. "Saporta tenía valiosas relaciones y estuvo físicamente en la sala de columnas en la que se produjo la votación. Salió corriendo , cruzó una avenida enorme cercana al Kremlln , llegó a la habitación del hotel en el que estábamos mi madre y yo y se puso a gritar ¡Ya somos presidentes! Trabajó mucho para conseguirlo y trajo la noticia" , recordó Samaranch Jr.
