rekrunner wrote:
Armstronglivs wrote:
What escapes you is that if WADA had afforded grounds for Houlihan's innocence on the grounds she argued - and she was innocent - then CAS would have acquitted her. It didn't. Yet it applied the WADA rules.
Let’s see what escapes you.
It was within the WADA rules to declare the result as an ATF.
At least a minority of the CAS Panel agreed that the WADA Lab did not follow procedure.
If nothing else, it highlights some ambiguity in the WADA process, and how much discretion rests with the ADAs and ADOs when the evidence is lacking.
No one said that the WADA rules were the ideal benchmark of justice and fairness to all athletes.
In fact, the chief of USADA says it is not, and publicly lobbies for reform.
The WADA Code was crafted and amended to make prosecution easier, and sanctions longer.