Great Britain drugs ban 'violates' Wada code
Page last updated at 22:56 GMT, Sunday, 20 November 2011
Dwain Chambers is barred from competing in the Olympics after a drugs offence
The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) board declared the policy "non-compliant" at a meeting on Sunday.
However the BOA is set to take the matter to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) in a bid to keep the ban. The BOA said: "We will vigorously defend any challenge to the policy which bans drug cheats from representing Team GB."
The decision by Wada's foundation board was widely
expected. It follows a week of increasingly heated exchanges
between the two organisations. The BOA believes the bye-law
is an eligibility rule, and that it has the right to decide who
can pull on the GB vest at the games. Wada says the BOA
rule amounts to an additional sanction. If the BOA loses its
challenge to the doping agency's decision, it will have to
rethink the bye-law which has overwhelming support among
British athletes, and previously excluded the likes of Dwain
Chambers from taking part in the London games
In October, Cas ruled the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) own rule barring serious doping offenders was unenforceable.
That allowed Olympic 400m champion LaShawn Merritt to overturn a ban that prevented him from competing at the Games, enabling him to defend his title in London next year.
Following the decision Wada wrote to the BOA urging it to review its policy.
But the BOA, which is the only national Olympic committee to enforce a lifetime ban for doping offenders, has repeatedly vowed to "vigorously defend" its selection policy.
In a statement the BOA said the ruling had brought "clarity and closure" to its dispute with Wada, adding: "We look forward to receiving the formal findings from Wada setting out how they have determined the BOA's selection policy is non-compliant with the world anti-doping code."
Wada president John Fahey has defended the ruling and criticised BOA chairman Colin Moynihan for his claims that current anti-doping sanctions are "toothless".
He said: "I'm very disappointed that it's come to this.
"I believe that Wada has acted very properly from the moment that we got news of the Court of Arbitration for Sport decision.
"We had their decision conveyed to us through a vitriolic spray in a speech that was circulated to everyone except us earlier this week."
The British Olympic Association has been told its life ban for drugs cheats violates the global anti-doping code.
However the BOA is set to take the matter to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) in a bid to keep the ban. The BOA said: "We will vigorously defend any challenge to the policy which bans drug cheats from representing Team GB."
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expected. It follows a week of increasingly heated exchanges
between the two organisations. The BOA believes the bye-law
is an eligibility rule, and that it has the right to decide who
can pull on the GB vest at the games. Wada says the BOA
rule amounts to an additional sanction. If the BOA loses its
challenge to the doping agency's decision, it will have to
rethink the bye-law which has overwhelming support among
British athletes, and previously excluded the likes of Dwain
Chambers from taking part in the London games
That allowed Olympic 400m champion LaShawn Merritt to overturn a ban that prevented him from competing at the Games, enabling him to defend his title in London next year.
Following the decision Wada wrote to the BOA urging it to review its policy.
But the BOA, which is the only national Olympic committee to enforce a lifetime ban for doping offenders, has repeatedly vowed to "vigorously defend" its selection policy.
In a statement the BOA said the ruling had brought "clarity and closure" to its dispute with Wada, adding: "We look forward to receiving the formal findings from Wada setting out how they have determined the BOA's selection policy is non-compliant with the world anti-doping code."
Wada president John Fahey has defended the ruling and criticised BOA chairman Colin Moynihan for his claims that current anti-doping sanctions are "toothless".
He said: "I'm very disappointed that it's come to this.
"I believe that Wada has acted very properly from the moment that we got news of the Court of Arbitration for Sport decision.
"We had their decision conveyed to us through a vitriolic spray in a speech that was circulated to everyone except us earlier this week."
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