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Lord Moynihan: Sapstead should resign, PEDs criminalized

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Previously (13 September 2015) in the Sunday Times:
"Shocking emails reveal how the head of the UK’s anti-doping watchdog wanted to bury bad news about cheating in athletics in the run-up to the next Olympics.

Nicole Sapstead, the UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) chief executive, sent the emails to the head of the British Olympic Association after an investigation six weeks ago by The Sunday Times and the German broadcaster ARD/WDR revealed widespread blood doping in athletics.

“We’ll do everything we can to ensure the focus is on the positive news,” she wrote. “The last thing we want is a story like this detracting from the Rio countdown.”
yikes.

When the ST story hit the fan yesterday, what got totally lost is that Lord Moynihan (ex Chairman of the British Olympic Association at the time of London 2012 and former Minister for Sport) was calling on Nicole Sapstead to resign. In the editorial of the Times he called for legislation to be enacted in the UK to mimic legislation in Germany and Italy and criminalize the use, supply and support of the use of PEDs in sport.

Moynihan wrote
"Today's revelations suggest that UK Anti-Doping (UKAD), has flawed management, poor investigative systems and ill-informed processes - all seemingly in clear contravention of the Wada code under which it operates. On the evidence of The Sunday times expose, it may no longer be compliant with the Wada code on which its existence depends.

"This is not just a serious embarrassment for Craig Reedie.......

"Anti-doping agencies have to be strictly independent, well governed, transparent and wholly professional. Toni Minichiello, Jessica Ennis's coach is right to question whether Nicole Sapstead, UKAD's chief executive can continue. Her position now appears to be untenable."
ouch.

Moynihan and Reedie were both on BBC Radio 4 TODAY program this morning. Unsurprisingly, Reedie thought there was nothing wrong with UKAD and claimed it was one of the leading lights in anti-doping in the world.
He sounded like he was reading a script prepared by Seb Coe's PR company or FIFA's Jiri "we're leading the fight against doping" Dvorak.
It was just before 8, you can hear the podcast here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b075pb4p

Ow, and what warrants this new thread?
Well it's Lord Moynihan's petition calling for doping in sport to be criminalised:
https://www.change.org/p/to-david-cameron-prime-minister-john-whittingdale-secretary-of-state-for-culture-media-and-spor-to-criminalise-doping-in-sport-in-britain
Suck on that, Sir Dave.
 
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Maxiton said:
I'm not following. Did Moynihan call for them to be criminalized or legalized? (The thread title says legalized.)
thanks. criminalized it is.

good grief, what a slip. Freudian almost.
In my defense, I had Peter Tosh's "legalize it" running in the background. :D
 
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