Race Radio said:
It is not ridiculous, it is an option for the IOC. They have discussed it on the specific level and on the Fed level. There was even a movement several years ago within the IOC to drop the UCI.
While Jamaica is the most obvious target today Turkey or Russia would likely be ahead of them in the race to get decertified.
Turks and Russians have other issues than Jamaica, and other results. RUSADA are announcing quite stunning numbers of positives - 28 yesterday I think, and several World class athletes in last few months. Are they coming through Moscow lab or Koln?
On the one hand, the sheer numbers are disheartinging - there are clearly, at best, pockets of significant and deliberate abuse (certain training groups, coaches rotten to the core)...on the other, the sheer number is encouraging - quite a lot of people are getting caught, and not all of them are nobodies - well, the might be nobodies to anglocentrics, but on a world scale, no.
Jamaica's non-existant anti-doping program is another matter entirely. Significant numbers of positives, mostly coming through IAAF rather than Jamaica, and no proper testing routines. All disheartening, nothing encouraging.
WADA is in a bind, in a sense; it relies on National feds and ADO's. Some have a decent rep and seem to care. (Germany, maybe France and UK). Some, its hard to say (USA), some just don't seem to give a damn - (JAM). THere's always room for 'homerism' - be it just doing nothing (Jam) accepting bullsh!t excuses as the US and UK have been known to do, to just plain corruption as in Moscow Lab.
I wonder whether we need a 'double lab', 'double fed' system - were tests are run by national ADO's in conjunction with other ADO's, so JAM can't hide, for example, and all tests are split between two labs, so say Moscow lab can't hid positives?
We certainly need more funding