Bretk’s clothing, head of athletics integrity, talks to Matt Movendi about the next challenge in the fight against doping, why are positive cases good news and why should more sports be?
Brett Clothier apologizes for negative athletics. Be that the Russian doping scandal or the current list of 120 Kenyan athletes is forbidden to participate in sports and everything.
The Australian is the head of athletics integrity, in response to a Russian scandal, and corruption is concentrated around IAAF President Lamin’s mortality, and at first some districts are skepticism. But hardly a week seems to go without aiu, a body that is proud to be completely independent by world athletics, imposing sanctions for doping violation. Instead of whistling to sport, clothes claim that it has a rather opposite effect.
“Every case is not a disaster for sports,” he said. “I think we can look at ourselves, and our sports fans can say that there is growing reliability, because we can actually catch one of the high level athletes. Not many can say that. “
Preparing mainly for $ 8 million for $ 8 million in world athletics and $ 3 million from the traffic jog. Be the races, shoe manufacturers or athletes and their agents are clear. In fact, it is to provide as a pure pitch as possible in sports.
In terms of the elite side of things, the organization-based organization has a group of 10 best athletes for any given discipline for men and women. Each athlete has a ranking table on how high their doping risk, which can be changed depending on certain criteria.
The world’s running world is different when 150 men and 150 females are profiled by AIU, and based on high quality athletes have not been punished.
Sprinters Okagbare and Christian Coleman and Triple 1500M World Champion Abel Kiprop fell to be violated, as well as a marathon world record maker Wilson Kipang and Rio Olympic champion.
Blessing Okagbare (Getty)
For seven years of his tenure in AIU, the clothes say: A number is just a small fish we caught. We can be proud of our success, we have a sport and trust in our system. Every time very good athletes become clear. “
Clothing, prepared lawyer, does not naive to suggest that AIU wins the fight against doping. He is well aware that games will never be completely eradicated. As a result, he struggles with the organization he heads his faces, a “cat and a mouse game.”
And closes the window in which the games are trying to catch. There are some prohibited materials that do not leave a trace until the six-hour duration is taken, and the microdea through the elite-level athletes means that such illegalities are also difficult to follow.
“It is difficult to catch the elite levels of dopers,” he admires. “The materials used by high-level athletes are now found only for a short window. It’s six hours for human growth hormone.
“In general, we try to put tests after six to 48 hours after the doping happen. It’s really hard work. No trial is set by accident, each test is individually planned to the individual athlete at the right time, in the right place. Without this degree, it’s just not going to work. You can perform 10,000 tests a year, but if you do it accidentally, aren’t you going to catch anyone? “
Tatiana Tomashova (ghettine)
Athlete’s biological passport. You can see any discrepancy in a long period of time, the center of AIU. As a result, their biggest success in the anti-aircraft struggle has been with resistant athletes.
This year and beyond, the focus is on what he calls “power events” using a steroidal biological passport, which began using the organization in 2023.
“There is a long way to go, and we are not there, where we want to be,” he said. “We are in a much better position than we started for the first time seven years ago. We have plans to improve what we do. We need and can take it to the next level. Of course, we are not cheating on anyone, thinking that we have received all this to find out.
“We have had a lot of success in patient events, but not so much in forceful events. The main reason for this is the test technology. The athlete’s biological passport has two modules, hematological, things that help resistant athletes and urinary sterioid profile.
“Hematology works much better than the steroid. We have a biological passport module of new athletes, which is a blood steroid passport, but the data must be built to prepare profiles. So far, it is promised, and it is our real centering in the coming years. “
Location – through which athlete must upload to the online system where they will be in one hour during any day of the week to test the medicine.
And so, as a way, he works with other agencies and the authorities. Be an anti-doping agency or other law enforcement agencies in 100 countries where AIU works in their investigations.
Clothing claims that the athletes now believe more and more in a more and more legal field than in recent years. And while he notes that AIU is not perfect, there is a surprise element that more other sports have not followed the suit.
“If sports are serious about its integrity, they should definitely look at it,” he said. “It’s not a rocket science, it’s not magical. It is a good management structure, independence, reasonably well-funded. Our mission is to get out and reveal it, be it doping or other aspects of sports. You never have those things in place, the results happen. “
He worked in the sports integrity of equestrian and the rules of Aussie before the AIU climb, it can be thought to dress cynical.
However, he claims that he may park the work of the day if necessary.
“I think I have some division,” he said. “It does your job and your job, you don’t trust anyone at all and you always take over the worst. (But), then I can absolutely enjoy tracking and a field or a wonderful marathon race and watch what happened in Paris without spoiling cynicism. “
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