http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/22/tennis-drug-ban-proves-that-wada-has-lost-the-plot/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:48:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/22/tennis-drug-ban-proves-that-wada-has-lost-the-plot/#comment-884 Doug Senwick Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-884 I agree with your comments 100%.I consider WADA to be an very dangerous organisation that will do anything to justify its own existence.<br />Many sportsmen have suffered bans from WADA that bare no relation to the supposed offence.I could take a handful of duirectic pills everyday for a year but I would still be lucky to land a ball on a pitch but Shane Warne was banned for a year for one diet pill.Wendall Sailor was banned for two years for the recreational use of cocaine that if anything would have inhibited his ability to play rugby union, but every second merchant banker and stockbroker is entitled to get trashed on a friday night with absolute impugnity.<br />I understand why Olympic power sports such as weightlifting ,javelin,discus and sprinting ban anabolic steroids because they enhance performance, but I am willing to "bet London to a brick" that ventolin does not enhance in anyway, a tennis players ability to play tennis.<br /> I agree with your comments 100%.I consider WADA to be an very dangerous organisation that will do anything to justify its own existence.
Many sportsmen have suffered bans from WADA that bare no relation to the supposed offence.I could take a handful of duirectic pills everyday for a year but I would still be lucky to land a ball on a pitch but Shane Warne was banned for a year for one diet pill.Wendall Sailor was banned for two years for the recreational use of cocaine that if anything would have inhibited his ability to play rugby union, but every second merchant banker and stockbroker is entitled to get trashed on a friday night with absolute impugnity.
I understand why Olympic power sports such as weightlifting ,javelin,discus and sprinting ban anabolic steroids because they enhance performance, but I am willing to “bet London to a brick” that ventolin does not enhance in anyway, a tennis players ability to play tennis.

]]> http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/22/tennis-drug-ban-proves-that-wada-has-lost-the-plot/#comment-885 Andrew Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-885 A bad regulator is dangerous but lets not forget that there are genuine cases of the abuse of drugs in sport. I think this kind of case shows the difficulty of having a tick-box approach to enforcement and the problems with a 'zero-tolerance' rhetoric. The same bad outcomes occur when control of illicit drugs becomes a matter of scoring points. What WADA seems to need is more judicial discretion and the requirement to review the actual effects of a banned substance in the sport in question when making its decisions. In archery, for example, someone high on amphetimines would have a disastrous tremor so WADA really has nothing to add by controlling it for that sport. A bad regulator is dangerous but lets not forget that there are genuine cases of the abuse of drugs in sport. I think this kind of case shows the difficulty of having a tick-box approach to enforcement and the problems with a ‘zero-tolerance’ rhetoric. The same bad outcomes occur when control of illicit drugs becomes a matter of scoring points. What WADA seems to need is more judicial discretion and the requirement to review the actual effects of a banned substance in the sport in question when making its decisions. In archery, for example, someone high on amphetimines would have a disastrous tremor so WADA really has nothing to add by controlling it for that sport.

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