The British Olympic Association (BOA) is expected to make an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after a ruling was released and found it in violation of the global anti-doping code over its lifetime ban for drug cheats. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) director-general David Howman confirmed they are ready to go to CAS if the BOA appeals.
According to Howman, “The board considered the report, which included the Cas decision in the IOC and USOC case and the implications for the BOA. The reasoning in the IOC decision was that article 45 of the IOC charter was deemed to be an extra sanction, and extra sanctions are not allowed under the code. Wada is responsible for anti-doping rules and all of our signatories have agreed they will conform with those rules. By going beyond them, a signatory is not conforming. It’s really as simple as that. The decision the board took was that the BOA rule was an extra sanction.”
Howman also made clear that WADA’s decision that found BOA non-compliant was not connected to the criticisms made by the BOA chairman, Colin Moynihan, last week on WADA’s methods. He also labelled the attacks “misguided.”
“The decision the board took on Sunday is solely associated with the CAS decision. What we were disappointed with was Lord Moynihan’s speech in which he not only talked about that decision but a lot of other things in terms of anti-doping. He was a little bit misguided and he wasn’t really adhering to the factual situation. It does become disappointing when a person of his eminence takes that track,” Howman said.
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