Russian Olympic chief to attend IOC summit on WADA reformations
President of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) Alexander Zhukov told TASS on Friday he would be attending next week’s IOC (International Olympic Committee) summit on reformations in the global anti-doping system. The press service of the global Olympic body announced on Thursday that issues regarding new reformations within the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) would be on the agenda of the IOC summit in Switzerland’s Lausanne on...
IOC official says WADA loses trust of clean athletes
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) needs reviewing the way it spends its budget while the global organization is losing the trust of clean athletes, a senior IOC (International Olympic Committee) official said in an interview with InsideTheGames sports web portal. A statement from Sergey Bubka, a member of the IOC Executive Committee, comes in the wake of the recent cyber-attacks on WADA’s database ADAMS (Anti-Doping Administration...
WADA confirms another leak of confidential athletes’ data by hackers
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has confirmed that, “once again today, the cyber hacker Group ‘Fancy Bear’ released a batch of confidential athlete data on their website, which they illegally obtained from a Rio 2016 Olympic Games account of WADA’s Anti-Doping Administration and Management System (ADAMS).” “With this in mind, stakeholders should know that WADA is being consulted and taking action based on...
Minister: Russia deeply concerned over recent attack on WADA’s database
Russia is deeply concerned with the recent cyber-attack on the global Anti-Doping Administration & Management System (ADAMS) since personal information of Russian athletes could have went public as well, Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said on Wednesday. Anonymous hackers from Fancybear.net web portal announced on Tuesday that they hacked the database of WADA’s ADAMS and leaked documents proving that WADA allowed Serena and...
WADA ready to unveil names of “dirty” Russian athletes of 2014 Winter Olympics to IOC
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is ready to announce the names of Russian athletes who violated the anti-doping regulations at 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, WADA President Craig Reedie told a press conference. WADA is prepared to unveil the names of “dirty” athletes performing in Sochi to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Reedie said, adding that Russia had created a doping system to secure victory at home...
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