Athletistic / Olympic Games. Irina Rodnina, a three-time Olympic figure skating champion and now a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, believes that the United States will not be able to deprive itself of the right to host the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and the 2034 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Earlier it became known that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is calling on the United States to take into account the effect of the “Rodchenkov law.”
“Each country has its own internal laws, let them deal with them themselves. We want to look into this, because our confrontation with them is already over. I am sure that the Americans will not be deprived of the right to host the Olympic Games.
I think WADA will want to show its strength, power and importance. But the World Anti-Doping Agency cannot be above the IOC and the internal laws of a single country. WADA is an organization approved by other countries. It has no legal right to be superior to them.
“Of course, we are all fighting for the purity of the Olympic movement, but WADA is pushing itself too far. When there is a right to deprive something, there must also be a right to defend something. Although WADA has not proposed anything for the purity of sport, it is only introducing bans,” Rodnina said, as quoted by Match TV.
On July 16, former IOC member Richard Pound said that the United States, due to the “Rodchenkov Act,” could lose its right to host the next Olympic Games. This could happen if U.S. law enforcement becomes overzealous in its investigation into the positive doping tests of 23 Chinese swimmers, who were cleared by WADA itself.
Source: Sport
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