General Discussion - David Millar says BOA is putting politics before sport in Wa amaimu - Sat Nov 26, 2011 1:35 am Post subject: David Millar says BOA is putting politics before sport in Wa
David Millar, the British cyclist currently banned for life from the Olympics after serving a two-year drug ban, has accused the British Olympic Association of putting politics ahead of sport in its dispute with the World Anti-Doping Agency.
"I think it's more of a political argument at the moment and the nfl jerseys cheap stances have become very political rather than looking at the big picture of the long-term future of sport and anti-doping," said Millar, who recently helped Mark Cavendish to the world road race title as captain of the British team.
Along with the sprinter Dwain Chambers and the shot putter Carl Myerscough, the Scot is awaiting the outcome of a legal tussle over whether the BOA's lifetime ban will stand after the court of arbitration for sport struck out a separate International Olympic Committee rule banning those suspended for more than six months from the Games that followed.
Wada ruled that the BOA did not comply with its code after seeking legal opinion on whether the IOC case, brought by the United States Olympic Committee and LaShawn Merritt, the 400 metres Olympic champion, left the BOA rule invalid.
Millar said he was content to observe the increasingly bitter spat between Wada and the BOA from a distance, but indicated he would like to compete in London if the BOA was forced to drop its lifetime ban, introduced in 1992.
"I wrote off the Olympics a long time ago, so for me, if the powers that be insist on changes then I'll see what happens but I'm not fighting this fight," he said.
"I'm not going to get involved myself because it would put a burden on ugg boots outlet David Brailsford and all the other guys at British Cycling and I've got too much respect for them."
But he said that if the rule was amended following a Cas appeal by the BOA against Wada's decision to rule it noncompliant and he was selected, then he would consider competing if it helped Cavendish win gold.
"Obviously it would be a wonderful opportunity and I would be very proud to be on the British team, and especially the British cycling team," said Millar, who was speaking at the Asics UKSem sports science and medicine conference. "If I went it would be more for Mark. It would be for the British cycling team. There is not much I would gain personally from going to the Olympics but I would gain a lot from the experience of helping Mark do well."
Millar, who was banned for two years in 2004 for admitting to injecting EPO after syringes were found by police in his apartment, said those who viewed the anti-doping debate in "black and white" terms would look as though they were operating in the "dark ages" within a decade.
"The way the system operates now is going to look so backward in a few years," he said, advocating doubling the standard ban for doping to four years but offering a two-year reduction for those who co-operated in full.
"That would allow us to discover what the entourage is doing and how they doped so we can prevent it in the future. At the moment, the problem is that it's [an] endgame situation. You are going to deny it, and by the time you are found guilty, the entourage has already dispersed," he said.
Millar, who has become a vocal advocate for drug-free sport and will be Vancouver Canucks Jerseys present at the Games as a Wada ambassador if he is not competing, said that the BOA should accept the principle of a global universal code for all competitions.
"I think it's massively important and what we should be looking at is the bigger picture. If the BOA is allowed to get away with one rule, why can't countries get away with other rules as well. Why can't they sanction less?" he said.
"That is what the argument is here, and that is what Wada is fighting for. They need a universalisation of the code and a respect for it before they can carry on developing it." tracyjq - Sun Nov 27, 2011 8:28 pm Post subject:
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