Friday, November 18, 2011

WADA: British doping issue could wind up with IOC

FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2008 file photo, Colin Moynihan, the chairman of the British Olympic Association, speaks at a news conference in Sydney, Australia. Moynihan said Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011 that the global fight against doping is entering a "dark age" because of a failure to keep deliberate drug cheats out of the games. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)

FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2008 file photo, Colin Moynihan, the chairman of the British Olympic Association, speaks at a news conference in Sydney, Australia. Moynihan said Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011 that the global fight against doping is entering a "dark age" because of a failure to keep deliberate drug cheats out of the games. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)

(AP) ? The IOC could be forced to intervene with Britain's Olympic committee if its lifetime ban on drug cheats is found to be in violation of global anti-doping rules.

The World Anti-Doping Agency will consider this weekend whether the British Olympic Association is "noncompliant" with the global code, a potential embarrassment for the nation that will host next year's London Olympics.

The meeting in Montreal comes at the end of a week in which WADA and the BOA exchanged sharp barbs in an unusual public spat between two major sports organizations.

At the heart of the dispute is a BOA bylaw, enacted in 1992, that bars British athletes for life from the Olympics if they are found guilty of doping. Britain is the only country that currently has such a rule.

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/347875155d53465d95cec892aeb06419/Article_2011-11-18-OLY-WADA-Meetings/id-874e09397fde44d5b585879f90ed3ef8

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