Double Olympic champion in biathlon Dmitry Vasiliev expressed the view that the re-election of Vitold Banka as head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) does not bode well for world sport.
On November 18, the WADA Board unanimously re-elected Vitold Banka as head of the organization. His new presidency is for the next three years.
“Judging by the way our Polish ‘friend’ handled WADA in the previous period, it doesn’t bode well. And I don’t expect anything good from him. Maybe even worse for us. Before his re-election, maybe, he more or less tried to hold himself back, but now, when he’s been re-elected for another term, he’s going to take it out on us.
Now they are laughing at our Valieva, an underage athlete, a child with whom all this misfortune happened. They also want to deprive her of the medal and all the other athletes who became the first in the team competitions in figure skating at the Olympics. Everything is sad. In general, all that is happening now does not lead to the development of the Olympic movement, but to its complete degradation. Unfortunately, Thomas Bach and others like him engage in destructive activities. He says athletes shouldn’t suffer because of political issues, but in fact he does the opposite. With these people, the Olympic movement should expect nothing good.
At the same time, this Polish leader Banka in many respects creates such conditions that biathlon Norwegians could win everything, subject to certificates. Norwegian skiers are already making confessions. Marit Bjorgen, for example, said she was found to have been doping. But no one even reacted to this,” Vasiliev told .
Source : MatchTV
