tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36333404924147867372024-03-05T03:59:16.165-08:00WADAwatchProviding maximum Transparency to the practices of WADA, its Fiefdom, its Vassals, the Nexus@Antidoping practice and normative Rules-establishmentZENmud productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07520070316585915774noreply@blogger.comBlogger175125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633340492414786737.post-223286213373456612010-11-21T11:54:00.000-08:002010-11-21T13:13:34.733-08:00CAS ICAS elects new president: G'day Mate!Welcome back to WADAwatch... just one voice discussing the international regulatory agencies whose livelihoods derive from the valiant and strident efforts to reduce and / or eliminate the scurge of doping in Sport.Our hiatus served to refresh the enthusiasm that has always been a bedrock of the WADAwatch credo. As readers can imagine (those whose memories exceed the average American's short spanZENmud productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07520070316585915774noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633340492414786737.post-26501697520559710282010-04-20T11:00:00.000-07:002010-04-20T13:02:28.397-07:00Where have all the WADAwatchers gone? Hello WADAwatchers... We missed you also!In the high country of Colorado, as the spring suns melt the winter snowpack, it recently dawned on our Editorial Panel (of one) that very little 'insidious' information is coming out of the world regime for anti-doping in sport...Has 'WADAworld' gone over the top, into a high and lofty plateau founded on good judgement, rightful pursuit of a balanced ZENmud productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07520070316585915774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633340492414786737.post-51926428795402647542010-03-15T21:34:00.000-07:002010-03-15T22:08:11.524-07:00Gripper goes South, Rossi crosses the AlpsNews from the Union Cycliste Internationale acquiring a new head of the Anti-Doping Service has surfaced, with the announced appointment of Francesca Rossi, of Italy, to replace Anne Gripper. Ms Gripper, who joined the UCI in October 2006 with the title of Manager of the UCI Anti-Doping Service, returns to Australia for personal reasons, having overseen the various high- and low-points that ZENmud productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07520070316585915774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633340492414786737.post-86501932039188810282010-02-24T13:30:00.000-08:002010-02-24T14:02:48.854-08:00AFLD: "Agence Francaise' Last Days"Times are tough... and the notion of attending to the foibles of the anti-doping world take some funny twists sometimes. Yet a recent (within the hour) search of information regarding the Tour de France 2010, came across this stunning article, by Cyclingnews: <!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> Huge funding cuts threaten future of AFLD <!-- @page { margin: 2cm }ZENmud productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07520070316585915774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633340492414786737.post-60238231584483257832010-02-16T09:01:00.000-08:002010-02-16T10:22:09.510-08:00Floyd? What's next: Isle of Saint Helena? Zee Frenchies sont very mad, évidemment... After the years of litigation, Floyd Landis is now 'under mandate of arrest' for the super-duper mysterious 'hacking case' that began in November, 2006, when AFLD Directeur Pierre Bordry had more influence in his small world.By zee way... Saint Helena was the English-controlled Island to which Napoléon was banished, for the Last six years of his ZENmud productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07520070316585915774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633340492414786737.post-60097848829713001772010-02-12T23:22:00.000-08:002010-02-13T00:40:08.525-08:00VANCOUVER: "Dopening Ceremonies"...A new Angel from GeorgiaNo one can smile on this Opening Olympic day that began, early and cloudy, with the violent death of a bright Georgian star, Nodar Kumaritashvili:CREDIT: Peter Parks, Getty Images Words cannot express the family's, the colleagues', the World of Sport's sadness: he shouldn't have gone that way. Yet a dangerous sport (when things go wrong) is compounded by the ZENmud productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07520070316585915774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633340492414786737.post-26569418893104603472010-01-24T02:31:00.000-08:002010-01-24T09:40:01.320-08:00Live by the Sword, Die by the Sword...Cher Pierre, on va te faire prendre ta retraite ?Dear Pierre, are they going to make you retire?The decision is made, as of Friday 23 January, 2010. Pat McQuaid has announced, following the AFLD debacle of October, and the UCI reply that closed out that eventful month, that the AFLD will not be any part of the doping control for the 2010 Tour de France.Imagine the chagrin now gnawing on naughty ZENmud productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07520070316585915774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633340492414786737.post-59171257300801185092010-01-21T18:08:00.000-08:002010-01-22T10:50:18.183-08:00WADAwatch: blatant self-promotion... Is there a lighter side to the anti-doping world? WADAwatch believes there is, and without further ado, we add to the range of "WADAwatch" items now available to you, the discerning anti-doping specialist. WADAwatch, a "100 per cent PURE" blog, which writes for expert and Spectator alike, has 'your mind in mind' for the assortment of items available for purchase via our 'partner' Café ZENmud productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07520070316585915774noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633340492414786737.post-66043807938204411862010-01-19T10:17:00.000-08:002010-01-19T12:02:50.277-08:00L'identité nationale et l'AFLDAre you privy to the grand "Débate nationale" in France, about their "national identity" or... what it means to be French? This pre-election strategy, spawned by Minister of the Interior Eric Besson (a former 'Gauchiste' turned Sarkozyste, whom some observers have implied is merely gauging the times and shifting his alliances to selfishly further his political career opportunities), has become a ZENmud productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07520070316585915774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633340492414786737.post-9705096530467574272010-01-15T04:04:00.000-08:002010-01-15T06:29:15.022-08:00Interim Directeur named for AFLD-Département des analyses[See below this story for some other items,treated as 'updates' as our time commitmentslay elsewhere...]Greetings from LandBase1... apologies to our faithful family of readers, for having taken a long week to migrate across the Atlantic Ocean, to the land of liberty, 24/7 Terror newscasting, and the USADA headquarters. Flights were smoother than the skin on these wretched fingers, damaged (and inZENmud productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07520070316585915774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633340492414786737.post-76640607432120040332010-01-06T10:28:00.000-08:002010-01-06T10:37:24.668-08:00Death in the Family: Dr Jacques de Ceaurriz, LNDDAs opposed as WADAwatch has been continuously, to the observed operations of the French lab under its Director, Jacques de Ceaurriz, we are saddened by the news of his death yesterday, and wish that his family remembers him for the qualities they found in him. There is no joy in relating this news. He could have (he was aged 60, "too young, too young") done much with the quest for WADA ZENmud productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07520070316585915774noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633340492414786737.post-17318048925857515952009-12-25T09:29:00.001-08:002009-12-25T09:56:31.795-08:00WADAwatch online gift shop!Ladies and gentlemen of 'the jury' (smile)...Do you know what would make your day complete?How you could bring a smile to your localLaboratory Director's day?Send them a WADAwatch T-shirt, or other item,from our ever-growing line of products(click image above, or any link below)... Come visit the new WADAwatch Swag Shop on CafePressFollow this link, and imagine the joy that wouldcome from sharingZENmud productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07520070316585915774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633340492414786737.post-22978290368828942162009-12-25T08:24:00.000-08:002009-12-25T08:41:13.103-08:00WADA: Mandard of the Year Award <!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> or: WADA perquisition complex (Scroll down to the English version) Au moment qu'on pensait que l'année était terminée, dans le sens d'antidopage, voilà que Pierre Bordry, ses minions et ses alliés policiers-judiciaires remontrent tous leurs acharnements contre l'équipe Astana et l'UCI, juste comme un pit-bull sur le 'visage' ZENmud productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07520070316585915774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633340492414786737.post-69069149029085740302009-12-19T07:09:00.000-08:002009-12-19T07:25:00.483-08:00WADAwatch corrections for DecemberFriends and readers, In haste to publish, and in receipt of well - intentioned if inaccurate information, WADAwatch published two posts this week that have undergone revisions. In yesterday's post, my laptop suffered from ghostly highlighting-shifting-text syndrome, and it wasn't noticed until a late-night 'proud of myself' review session.Friday, 18 December 2009 WADAwatch: the transition ZENmud productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07520070316585915774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633340492414786737.post-50444524998728289512009-12-18T07:46:00.001-08:002009-12-19T07:09:19.323-08:00WADAwatch: the transition begins...Dear readers,[This post suffered from 'floating ghosts/mouse/c-n-paste syndrome (perhaps the author should be drug-tested for eggnog abuse?); our apologies]So ends 2009, and we wish you and yours a Happy New Year. To the staff of WADA, we wish better laboratory analyses standardization and Signatory compliance; to the Athletes whose lives lie in the competence and ethics of those analyses, we ZENmud productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07520070316585915774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633340492414786737.post-19041114489105059632009-12-15T09:18:00.001-08:002009-12-27T08:47:43.040-08:00WADA concept: good Sciencemanship <!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> Sportsmanship... a well–respected and rewarded characteristic since oases were shared, and WADA communicates 'playing fair' in its Fundamental Rationale; but where is its good sciencemanship? Remember Christopher Campbell's Dissent to the Landis AAA hearing Award? “Whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest withZENmud productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07520070316585915774noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633340492414786737.post-55121913149133215012009-11-25T07:07:00.002-08:002009-11-25T07:43:13.134-08:00Another Perspective on 2008 WADA Laboratory Statistics <!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> When the Honourable John Fahey presided, last November 2008, as Chair of the WADA Executive Committee, his remarks included two important concepts.First, as to the problem or situation of full Signatory 'compliance', that WADA had “... certainly watered down the black and white approach that many believed should have been taken.ZENmud productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07520070316585915774noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633340492414786737.post-20773359786314592872009-11-22T13:02:00.000-08:002009-11-25T07:07:07.486-08:00Just a tribute to John F KennedyThis post is now a simple memorial to John F Kennedy, having served its previous purpose. Sunday, 22 November.In grateful Memory of John Fitzgerald KennedyTo be continued.... "And.... action!"..........@......... WADAWATCHone hundred percent pure copyright 2009 WwZENmud productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07520070316585915774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633340492414786737.post-69685609372781381312009-11-22T06:59:00.000-08:002009-11-22T14:00:16.610-08:00The Beau-jo (Lab stats) Nouveau est arrivée <!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> [Edited twice to reformulate our own massive math errors, fromcross-references to 'Olympic' or 'Overall' statistics: we'llaccept any offers of editing on math... and to discuss Footnote 2 Ww]On request from a correspondent, WADAwatch is thinking about 'Atypical Findings', that bear influence in WADA's 2008 Laboratory Statistics ZENmud productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07520070316585915774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633340492414786737.post-57665255315842715302009-11-18T07:21:00.000-08:002009-11-20T06:30:33.015-08:00A Belated WADAnniversary present...[the text of this blog-post has been edited, with this colour]On November 10, 1999... well, let us quote the 'new' WADA web page itself: <!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> The IOC took the initiative and convened the Firts World Conference on Doping in Sport in Lausanne in February 1999.Some four years later, the WADA Code (sometimes known as 'WADC': signed in ZENmud productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07520070316585915774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633340492414786737.post-68715786052625110262009-11-02T03:14:00.000-08:002009-11-02T06:41:11.611-08:00Cycling War II: the UCI shows its honourThe UCI has responded to the AFLD report (a report which has never been published on its web site by the accusing French Agency) with a fact-based series of observations that stimulate the thought, previously expressed here at WADAwatch, that there is an agenda at AFLD.WADAwatch notes an interesting presse communiqué dated 30 October, 2009, from the AFLD web site. It's text was short: <!-- @ZENmud productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07520070316585915774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633340492414786737.post-19637911286028460042009-10-29T04:52:00.001-07:002009-10-29T06:29:56.611-07:00Lord of the Leaks (Bordry déchainé) <!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> <!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> FLASH SIDEBAR: French Secretary of State for Sport Rama Yade, announced yesterday (in Amaury Editions' daily newspaper Le Parisien (en français)) that she wanted a 'rapprochement' between the UCI and the AFLD... and that this was 'important'; meanwhile she (as ZENmud productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07520070316585915774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633340492414786737.post-82970632527427228012009-10-23T09:04:00.001-07:002009-10-23T09:42:57.683-07:00The 'Phone-y War': updates on AFLD v UCI 2009
<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> Two new articles appeared nearly simultaneously with our publishing of the three part series Nettoyage Ethique / Ethic Cleansing
The first is more amusing than 'damning', and written by a true master of French journalism, Claude Drousset. Former writer for l'Equipe, editor of Vélo Magazine (French monthly cycling mag), ZENmud productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07520070316585915774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633340492414786737.post-15184078788042541442009-10-21T04:42:00.000-07:002009-10-23T09:46:52.662-07:00Ethic cleansing / Nettoyage éthique – Part I
<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> [This is a three-part series regarding the French Anti-Doping Agency AFLD, and the current events it has instigated. Part I offers the escalating situation as viewed by the French Press, Part II reveals information published by AFLD itself, as a report of activities is analysed, and Part III suggests that WADA has sufficient ZENmud productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07520070316585915774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633340492414786737.post-68983702226549255812009-10-21T03:20:00.000-07:002009-10-21T05:52:40.331-07:00Nettoyage Éthique / Ethic Cleansing – Part II [In Part I of this three-part post, WADAwatch analysed the newest Le Monde article regarding the escalating CWII (Cycling War II) declared by the AFLD against UCI. In this second installment Ww presents AFLD documentation regarding its efforts in the first half of 2009 (especially the Tour de France), to integrate that information with the Le Monde series of articles; Part III discusses the roleZENmud productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07520070316585915774noreply@blogger.com0