WADA responds to Djokovic

[Iona16]

Fahey: 'Djokovic doesn't have the faintest idea what WADA does'

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/14/sport/tennis-wada-fahey-djokovic/index.html?sr=sharebar_twitter

World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) president John Fahey has told CNN he doesn't think Novak Djokovic "has the faintest idea" what his organization does after the World No. 2 said he'd lost faith in the system.

The Serbian labeled compatriot Victor Troicki's 12-month ban from tennis for missing a drugs test a "total injustice" and said he was now nervous to give any sort of sample.

But Fahey dismissed the six-time grand slam winner's comments as unhelpful and said it was up to the sport to do more to fight against doping.

"I don't think Novak Djokovic has the faintest idea what we do and if he wants to understand what we do I'm more than happy to pick up the phone and talk to him, if he wants to talk to me," he told CNN.

 

[brokenshoelace]

He had that coming. It was a really stupid comment (the part where he said "I don't trust WADA anymore... perhaps he shouldn't trust the man who skipped a drug test).

 

[GameSetAndMath]

He was just trying to help a friend and being stupid. I think it is best to
ignore his comment, even though i don't agree with his comment.

But, I guess WADA needed to respond as it was direct attack on them.

 

[Fastgrass]

WADA needs to ban real doper .

 

[tented]

WADA needs to ban real doper .

They did -- Cilic was banned.

 

[JesuslookslikeBorg]

djokovic is supposed to be clever..

so his outburst was even more surprising when you read his 'over emotional leave his brain at the door' statement.

 

[Riotbeard]

I think it was wrongheaded, but an understandable if misguided backlash response to a friend in trouble. Clearly the better the doping tests the better, and I can't understand Troicki decision unless he had been doping. If you could just say, let me do it tomorrow, it would obviously be a bad system.

 

[Kieran]

I don't mind Novak defending a friend (even though he was wrongheaded to, in this matter), but what's he mean when he says he's nervous to give any sort of sample? Why would he be nervous? In both cases, the player was at fault and there was absolutely no suggestion that drug testers messed up the testing of samples.

So why would he say that?

 

[Riotbeard]

I don't mind Novak defending a friend (even though he was wrongheaded to, in this matter), but what's he mean when he says he's nervous to give any sort of sample? Why would he be nervous? In both cases, the player was at fault and there was absolutely no suggestion that drug testers messed up the testing of samples.

So why would he say that?

My guess would be, he is trying to stick up for Troicki claims that the rules are unclear, and that since things allegedly where miscommunicated to Troicki (which I don't buy Troicki's story), he is worried he could get in trouble based on a misunderstanding of bureaucracy without actually doping.

 

[DarthFed]

I don't mind Novak defending a friend (even though he was wrongheaded to, in this matter), but what's he mean when he says he's nervous to give any sort of sample? Why would he be nervous? In both cases, the player was at fault and there was absolutely no suggestion that drug testers messed up the testing of samples.

So why would he say that?

Agreed, Troicki got in trouble for NOT giving a sample and rightly so. Friend or not, sometimes actions can be indefensible. He'd do better to say he thinks Victor is a decent guy who made a mistake, that he believes he is not a doper, etc. To attack the system here doesn't make any sense. There should be a whole heck of a lot more outrage over everything in the Cilic case.

 

[Kieran]

I don't mind Novak defending a friend (even though he was wrongheaded to, in this matter), but what's he mean when he says he's nervous to give any sort of sample? Why would he be nervous? In both cases, the player was at fault and there was absolutely no suggestion that drug testers messed up the testing of samples.

So why would he say that?

Agreed, Troicki got in trouble for NOT giving a sample and rightly so. Friend or not, sometimes actions can be indefensible. He'd do better to say he thinks Victor is a decent guy who made a mistake, that he believes he is not a doper, etc. To attack the system here doesn't make any sense. There should be a whole heck of a lot more outrage over everything in the Cilic case.

Agree about Novak. What has Troicki skipping a test have to do with being nervous over giving a sample? What's he afraid of? Has anyone ever successfully accused WADA of making mistakes in testing samples?

As for Cilic, his mother is clearly to blame, right? I mean, every man rightly loves his mammy, and in this instance, she let him down badly. She should be banned from being a mother for six months...