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WADA Director General still waiting for UCI apology

Wednesday, April 22 2015 by SNTV
  • Intro:

    WADA Director General David Howman said on Tuesday (21st April) that they are working with the Kenyan government after allegations of drug use. He also spoke of doping in American sports, and said he is still waiting for an apology from the UCI following the Lance Armstrong drug scandal.

    Script:

    SOUNDBITE: (English) David Howman, WADA Director General (on the NFL)

    'I think there needs to be an attitude shift from the players that they should be making sure they are delivering clean sport, they should be making sure that they are not protecting the bad guys, the one or two who may be trying to cheat, or actually cheating, and put the emphasis on the bulk, on the bigger numbers of those in their unions who, I trust, will be clean athletes.'

    SOUNDBITE: (English) David Howman, WADA Director General

    'What UCI have done is they have just finished an independent report on all what allegedly went on during the late 90s and early 2000s, they have released that report, there is a shaft of recommendations, some of which are directed directly at what UCI should be doing, strengthening its own programme, some of which have been looking more globally to see what we can do to strengthen the programme, so we are responding to those recommendations ourselves, we are working with UCI, we have had a meeting with them recently to see what we can do with them and the outcome of that will be known in the next few weeks.'

    SOUNDBITE: (English) David Howman,WADA Director General (On Lance Armstrong)

    'I think to say he got away with it is probably the wrong way of expressing it, I think what happened was he was able to beat the system in ways and means that others were complicit and others understood what he was trying to do, I am not just talking about his team, but there was a healthy disrespect for the rules, I don't think that will be happening again, i dot think you are going to get that collective or systematic doping approach in cycling, i think they have learned a lot from that, the issues we came up with at WADA included being a recipient of a report that was written by Lance Armstrong's lawyers supposedly being an independent report. We spent a lot of time and money, we fended off a lot of legal action all for nothing, we are not going to be compensated, we haven't even been apologised to, and that is regrettable.'

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