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Doping body to go easy on riders who tell all
To encourage them to step forward, ASADA says it will offer ''substantial assistance'', should their evidence show they have breached the anti-doping laws.
''It has been presented to us that there are people thinking about coming forward,'' the ASADA chief executive, Aurora Andruska, told Fairfax Media. ''What we are keen to do is to encourage them to come and talk to us.
''The message we are trying to give is: 'Come and tell us what your involvement is before someone is telling us about you.''' [...]
Andruska said anyone who broke doping rules but gave evidence could receive reduced bans, as did those who testified against Armstrong. ''If people do give us information - and they are actively cycling and a sanction could potentially apply to them if they give us information - that can lead to what they call 'substantial assistance','' Andruska said.
''That is what happened in the outcome of the work by USADA, where sanctions that normally would have been two years were reduced to six months. We are going to be looking very favourably to that kind of approach, as well."
However, Andruska said there would be no amnesty - anyone guilty of a breach would not escape punishment.
Read more: Doping body to go easy on riders who tell all
To encourage them to step forward, ASADA says it will offer ''substantial assistance'', should their evidence show they have breached the anti-doping laws.
''It has been presented to us that there are people thinking about coming forward,'' the ASADA chief executive, Aurora Andruska, told Fairfax Media. ''What we are keen to do is to encourage them to come and talk to us.
''The message we are trying to give is: 'Come and tell us what your involvement is before someone is telling us about you.''' [...]
Andruska said anyone who broke doping rules but gave evidence could receive reduced bans, as did those who testified against Armstrong. ''If people do give us information - and they are actively cycling and a sanction could potentially apply to them if they give us information - that can lead to what they call 'substantial assistance','' Andruska said.
''That is what happened in the outcome of the work by USADA, where sanctions that normally would have been two years were reduced to six months. We are going to be looking very favourably to that kind of approach, as well."
However, Andruska said there would be no amnesty - anyone guilty of a breach would not escape punishment.
Read more: Doping body to go easy on riders who tell all
