It was the fault of the Anti-Doping Agency WADA to agree to the deal that allowed the Swedish hockey player Nicklas Backstrom to retain the silver medal even though he left a positive doping test at the Olympic Games in Sochi.
It says Dick Pound, who was head of WADA between 1999 and 2007.
Backstrom was shut down hours before the final against Canada after being tested positive for pseudoephedrine, which he had received in themselves through their allergy medicine. He appealed against the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decision and after a series of appeals from various quarters ended the matter with that he accepted a reprimand from the sport arbitration Cas. In the settlement participated WADA, the IOC and international nba IHF.
At a WADA meeting in Montreal on Wednesday scented Pound their discontent.
– We have an athlete who failed a test and go around with a silver medal around her neck. We fumbled with the ball, he said, meant that WADA would never have agreed to the deal.
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