US Anti-Doping Agency Chief Criticizes WADA Donors- Exclusive Interview with Travis Tygart

For US doping hunter Travis Tygart, “the main forces in sport and the governments” like WADA’s supporters are also to blame for the crisis of credibility in the global fight against drugs. In an interview with Mr Spiegel Tygart said: “The silence from the top brass when it comes to how worrying the current evidence is is deafening.”

The head of the US anti-doping agency USADA confirmed his call for a “general review of WADA” because “the current case has shown once again that the global anti-doping system has failed athletes.” “

die Reason around the positive doping samples of 23 swimmers from China Before Olympic Games 2021 in Tokyo, which did not result in any sanctions, rocked world sport at the weekend. The New York Times and the HIGHThe doping editorial team researched and published the case together. Since then, the World Anti-Doping Agency has been defensive.

She said in a statement that she had “taken care at all stages of this case and in accordance with the agreed procedure and the rules of the World Anti-Doping Code.” So far, “no one” has been able to provide evidence that would allow for a successful prosecution.

WADA believes that the national anti-doping organization CHINADA and the Chinese authorities, whose investigation has revealed contamination in a hotel kitchen with the banned heart drug trimetazidine (TMZ). For Tygart, “the definition of a fairy”. CHINADA “sweeps 23 doping cases under the carpet – and WADA stands by and lets it happen,” he said.

Tygart calls for “a thorough investigation.” The case hangs “like a dark cloud over the Olympics, the sport of swimming and the athletes who now know they are competing against athletes who have tested positive and whose results have been kept secret until now,” he said.