“Completing the ADAMS system is an athlete’s job, but tightening the requirements can crack the nuts” – FVSR manager Ekimov

President of the Russian Cycling Federation (FVSR) Vyacheslav Ekimov believes that athletes should be more responsible for filling in the information in the ADAMS system, but further strengthening of the requirements in this regard can only harm the situation.

Earlier, former World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) chief Richard Pound had proposed toughening the requirements.

– At the end of the year, former WADA President Richard Pound said that the story had to be tightened up with the ADAMS system on the so-called “flags”. You always spoke harshly about it. Do you really need to tighten the screws?

– I am convinced that an athlete, as a professional, should also be responsible for the implementation of this part of his work. We, as a federation, organize seminars, webinars, train for this, RUSADA actively does this. That is, everyone has the opportunity to receive anti-doping education. And filling in information is like brushing your teeth; everything is explained to you, do it. It’s your job. But even more difficult – to tighten the nuts? This way you can break them. Also, I sincerely believe that there should still be more understandable information here, everything should be spelled out as clearly as possible and explained in time – with this too, as I understand it, there are problems. All responsible parties must craft this story qualitatively,” Yekimov told .