This is what they get when they sell their skins for other countries.
At the first opportunity they turn their back on you.
None will convince that this forum (generally the western countries) are full of racism and hatred.
You made your proofs.
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SHAME ON SPAIN CELAD
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Spain hid other cases such as those of Mo Katir that will not be sanctioned
Relevo has had access to documentation about the failed controls that were not notified to the athletes or registered with the World Anti-Doping Agency.
The Spanish anti-doping agency hid failed controls on athletes who were not at the designated location due to the surprise visit of the control agent. According to documentation to which Relevo has had access, the CELAD (Spanish Anti-Doping Commission in Sports) cheated and did not even record many of the failed controls - those that are attempted to be carried out out of competition at the place and time indicated by the athlete - ordered and planned by the agency itself.
As in the case of Mo Katir, sanctioned by the international athletics federation (World Athletics, WA) for failing to appear up to three times at the designated location, those athletes included in the control group of the Spanish anti-doping agency or its corresponding international federation must anticipate their daily location on a quarterly basis , specify travel and competition schedules, and include the hours available to undergo "out-of-competition" anti-doping controls.
When they are notified that they have been included in these monitoring groups, they must incorporate all that information at the beginning of each quarter in their Adams (Anti-Doping Administration & Management System) profile , the platform of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). where athletes can easily report their location , request authorization for therapeutic use (permission to consume prohibited substances under medical prescription) or find out their doping control results. Adams also allows supervision by the world body and favors international coordination at an information level between all national agencies to avoid, among other things, redundant controls.
For last-minute changes, WADA makes a mobile application available to athletes, Athlete Central - available for IOS and Android -, with which changes can be made regarding their whereabouts at any time. It also allows modification of the so-called "location window" (the time chosen by the athlete himself to carry out out-of-competition controls), although given the importance of the surprise factor in the anti-doping fight, controls can also be carried out outside of competition. chosen time, between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m. During this period, the athlete must be reachable at the indicated whereabouts, even if it is not the time chosen for out-of-competition controls.
In the event of accumulating three failed controls in a 12-month period, that is, those that are attempted out of competition but in which the athlete is not at the designated place and time, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will consider it as doping and the athlete in question will be sanctioned based on the World Anti-Doping Code. However, the Spanish agency did not process numerous failed controls received, so some athletes in the monitoring group, despite having accumulated infractions for non-compliance with their location, have the counter at zero when facing a possible sanction such as that of Mo Katir .
Since it was not processed, and therefore, the athlete in question was not notified, they remained in the usual limbo of the CELAD , where there are also some files without sanction for a Biological Passport , several whose control was carried out irregularly by a single agent that prevented the subsequent sanction in case of positive and others who were granted a retroactive therapeutic use authorization to "cover" the positive . The management of recent years has left an increasingly larger hole in the highest body for the fight against doping in Spain.
The processing of a failure: notification to the athlete, allegations and registration in Adams
Upon receiving documentation of a failed control by the agent , CELAD must, according to Spanish regulations - which refers in this matter to the World Anti-Doping Code and its International Standard for results management -, process said control as soon as possible. possible. According to WADA regulations, it is recommended that the agency process the ruling within the next 14 days from the date of the ruling on the athlete's whereabouts to notify him of his absence from a control. Once communicated, the athlete also has a period of 14 days to admit the whereabouts failure or give an explanation. If the agency deems the justification appropriate, it will record its decision in Adams . Otherwise, if it is considered that the requirements to consider it failed are met, the athlete will be notified of its resolution and the failure will be recorded.
Furthermore, the regulations indicate that if the anti-doping organization did not process a failed control, and therefore, did not notify the athlete so that he could make a claim, any subsequent failed test would be neutralized by that irregularity , as occurred in the case of Adel. Mechaal . The athlete, sanctioned in 2017 like Mo Katir for accumulating three failures to appear in his location during a year, appealed to the Court of International Sports Arbitration (CAS). "The second failed test that was attempted on the athlete took place on January 24, 2016, that is, five days before the athlete actually became aware of his first failed test" was what the Court stated in its resolution with the that acquitted Mechaal even though the CAS was aware that the athlete "made it clear that his way of acting denotes a worrying lack of knowledge of his obligations regarding location/whereabouts."
However, Relevo has had access to documentation that shows that CELAD, under the direction of Jesús Muñoz-Guerra, head of the Doping Control Department, arbitrarily hid failures of athletes that should have been registered in Adams and, in some cases, would have motivated a sanction by accumulating more than three violations for non-compliance with location in a period of 12 months. That is to say, there are Spanish athletes who should have been sanctioned like Mo Katir but the management of the Spanish anti-doping agency prevented it.
In the face of failed controls that had not been processed for months despite the fact that the recommendation was 14 days for administrative management, Muñoz-Guerra's order was clear: "With the time that has passed, in this case, we could lift the violation ," he arrived. to indicate. In other cases, however, they simply resolved with an ex officio notification after an informal email from an athlete alleging that his passwords in Adams did not work and, therefore, he could not change the location in his profile . The extraordinary thing is that said notification that "forgave" the failure reached the athlete about a year later and without having followed the official channel in its processing: "In view of the allegations presented, said case has been resolved considering that said case will not be counted. control as failed". Like these examples, there are numerous cases in which the athlete's counter, despite not being reachable at the whereabouts and time that he had previously chosen, was, again and arbitrarily, at zero.
Another of the patterns that Jesús Muñoz-Guerra followed as head of the Doping Control Department and María del Mar Plata as head of the Results Evaluation Unit in the face of failed controls was to indicate to the control agents displaced to the locations indicated by the Athletes in follow-up who will wait at the indicated whereabouts until the athlete in question can be tested even if the so-called "location window" has been exceeded, that is, the regulatory time in which the athlete himself previously commits to being at that location. specific whereabouts. Sometimes the mission even lasted several days until the control could be carried out.
Although the agents, as indicated in the regulations, sent the complete failed attempt form with the corresponding evidence in the absence of the athlete, on numerous occasions they were instructed to carry out the subsequent control under the same "mission number." This would be a correct practice based on the regulations as long as both controls were subsequently processed, the failed one and the one that could finally be carried out. But sometimes this was not the case and the Spanish anti-doping agency only recorded the control carried out and not the failed test due to the athlete's failure to appear.
A key: the amounts paid for failed controls were much lower than the payments for the tests carried out
Some of the athletes with whom Relevo has contacted say that during the time set for carrying out the control, some agents insist a lot on the phone until they are located . They even confirm that, on occasions, if they were located through this route even if they were not in person at the indicated whereabouts, they would meet with them and carry out the check. "They insist a lot." However, this practice is prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Code as it would allow the taking of a masking agent , usually diuretics, which would neutralize the presence of prohibited substances in the body and therefore put in check the anti-doping fight in our country.
But why did the control agent decide to break the regulation? This "flexibility" highlights one of the major gaps surrounding failed controls : the financial compensation received by the successful bidder companies in charge of carrying out the controls. As Relevo has been able to confirm, the payment from the Spanish anti-doping agency to companies for failed controls is much less than for controls carried out. For this reason, companies like PWC asked their agents to insist until the test was carried out in order to be able to invoice the control carried out instead of a failed test, since the financial amount was reduced to an amount less than half of what is paid for the doping control carried out.
However, some agents and companies responsible for carrying out the controls rejected this possibility. They knew the regulations and knew that this practice was prohibited. In those cases, the agency's instructions changed: the order was to send the failed control form and the completed control form , yes, under the same mission number. In this way, although CELAD paid for both controls, for the purposes of the World Anti-Doping Agency and arbitrarily, in some cases they only recorded the one carried out and, therefore, it was not counted for sanctioning purposes within the three occasions that an athlete can incur non-compliance with the indicated location for 12 months.
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