No Change for Whereabouts Rule
WADA leaders will explain why they did not make changes to the controversial whereabouts rule later today in a press conference that follows a weekend meeting of the WADA executive committee and Foundation Board.
While WADA kept the rule intact, it will form more user-friendly guidelines to assist international federations and national anti-doping organizations. A working group will review the rules and draw practical recommendations that WADA will review during meetings in November.
"Whereabouts information is a key element of effective out-of-competition testing programs," said WADA’s President John Fahey. "But they must be used by anti-doping organizations to design and implement truly effective testing programs targeting top level athletes, not just to systematically receive information from disproportionately high or low numbers of athletes that they will then not use. The provisional results of the review clearly indicated a need for user-friendly guidelines that can help IFs and NADOs enforce the whereabouts rules."
Fahey and WADA executive director David Howman will take part in the conference call with reporters.
Sport for Hope Debut in Zambia
A multi-sport complex aimed at developing sport in Africa is unveiled Tuesday. The $10 million facility in Lusaka, Zambia was constructed with money from the IOC’s Sports for Hope program.
President Jacques Rogge is travelling to Zambia for the opening of the Olympic Youth Development Center.
Coke Joins YOG
Olympic sponsor Coca-Cola inked a sponsorship of the Singapore Youth Olympic Games torch relay.
The deal was completed Monday at a ceremony with Goh Kee Nguan and Ser Miang Ng, CEO and chair of the YOG organizing committee respectively, and Antonio Del Rosario, Coca-Cola General Manager.
Australian Sport Waits for Budget Release
Australian Olympic Committee President John Coates will be in the Australian capital city of Canberra Tuesday, hoping for word that funding for sport is included in the new federal budget.
Rumors in Australia say that up to $40 million could be earmarked for elite sport programs. The money goes to the Australian Sports Commission, which decides on its own how to spend the money. The AOC has no influence in how that money is shared.
Nonetheless, Coates has actively lobbied for the funding, as it goes to the sports which compete on the Australian team at the Olympics.
Written by Ed Hula III and Sam Steinberg.
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