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WADA Funding At Critical Point In Doping War | Cyclingnews.com
A lack of government funding could harm the fight against doping, so says WADA's director-general David Howman... speaking at the "International Conference: The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Fight Against Doping" in Paris. The event was hosted by the Ministry of Sports, Youth, Non-Formal Education and Voluntary Organizations of France, and co-organized with the Council of Europe, UNESCO and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
WADA currently receive between $28-30 million USD per-year with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) matching every dollar from national governments...
"I think we are now stretching the dollar we've got to far beyond the stretching capacity of that dollar. And if you look at the list of things we're asked to do, it's huge. We've not been able to hire new people since 2004 and you've got to say at some stage, something has to give. We're stretching it to the give factor now," he told Cyclingnews.
"It means you don't do everything as thoroughly as you could and instead of doing 10 things you do five. And if you do five that count, that's fine but if from the other five one proves to be something you should be doing you get caught out. I hope we don't get to that stage. It's right on the verge now. Next year all be a challenge but then 2015 will be even bigger because of the changes to the rules. You ask us to carry these things out but you don't give us the resources to do it. What's going to happen?"
"The worst case scenario is that we'll have to reduce the number of people we've got working for us and we'll have to reduce the activities we're doing. That's not beneficial for the fight against doping."
Read more: WADA Funding At Critical Point In Doping War | Cyclingnews.com
A lack of government funding could harm the fight against doping, so says WADA's director-general David Howman... speaking at the "International Conference: The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Fight Against Doping" in Paris. The event was hosted by the Ministry of Sports, Youth, Non-Formal Education and Voluntary Organizations of France, and co-organized with the Council of Europe, UNESCO and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
WADA currently receive between $28-30 million USD per-year with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) matching every dollar from national governments...
"I think we are now stretching the dollar we've got to far beyond the stretching capacity of that dollar. And if you look at the list of things we're asked to do, it's huge. We've not been able to hire new people since 2004 and you've got to say at some stage, something has to give. We're stretching it to the give factor now," he told Cyclingnews.
"It means you don't do everything as thoroughly as you could and instead of doing 10 things you do five. And if you do five that count, that's fine but if from the other five one proves to be something you should be doing you get caught out. I hope we don't get to that stage. It's right on the verge now. Next year all be a challenge but then 2015 will be even bigger because of the changes to the rules. You ask us to carry these things out but you don't give us the resources to do it. What's going to happen?"
"The worst case scenario is that we'll have to reduce the number of people we've got working for us and we'll have to reduce the activities we're doing. That's not beneficial for the fight against doping."
Read more: WADA Funding At Critical Point In Doping War | Cyclingnews.com
