“Everything seems to indicate that we will stay at home and race in the Russian Cup. Doping is now at the bottom of the list of problems” – Wilde

Olympic Snowboard Champion and Games Medalist wild vic responded to World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President Witold Banka’s proposal to recognize the code of organization in US college sports and professional leagues, noting that doping issues are now taking a back seat.

WADA believes that the time has come to get the World Anti-Doping Code accepted by US colleges and has proposed a roadmap to start this work. At the request of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), all Olympic sports must adopt a world anti-doping code. However, most professional sports leagues in the United States, as well as the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), have not signed the WADA code. Since 2000, the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has been monitoring illicit drug use in the United States.

“I think there are more important things we need to focus on. I’m very tired of the past seven years, where we’ve been told all the time about doping. Let’s talk about how to make the Olympics more watchable. Let’s talk about Russian athletes so that they can compete in the next Games. So far everything seems to indicate that we will stay at home and race in the Russian Cup. It seems to me that doping is now at the bottom of the list problems, Wilde told .

At the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, Wild, playing for the Russian team, won bronze in the parallel giant slalom. After the end of the Games, he announced his intention to end his career. In April, the athlete said that he did not want to work in the Russian Snowboard Federation.

Wild is 35 years old and originally from the United States. In May 2012, the snowboarder received a passport as a citizen of the Russian Federation, and after that he began to play in the Russian team. At the 2014 Sochi Games, Wild won gold in parallel slalom and parallel giant slalom.