TALGUT ZENTRUM (SUI): The Anti-Doping Agency of Switzerland has suspended cooperation with the IAAF. In an official statement Antidoping Switzerland called this step a “precaution”, because of the information on how the IAAF handled the fight against doping. Affected will be for the moment the data exchange between Antidoping Switzerland and the IAAF for example in the field of biological passports. The Swiss organisation also said that it will check the efforts of IAAF in order to renew the cooperation.
Editor’s note: There are always two sides to a story. Lots of mistakes by Swiss anti-doping. I believe that they lost Russian samples and that there are many questions on discrepancies. Kudos to Swiss Anti-Doping to taking the blame game off themselves. When all else fails, just blame the IAAF. Pretty easy to do, but not always the case.
I think that there may be more to this story.
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Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.
Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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