Sunday, 24 January 2021
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has made substantial changes to its anti-doping rules, leading to complaints from some nations of a lack of transparency and of loosening when it should be tightening the policing of multiple offenders.
A redrafted policy was needed as a new World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Code came into effect from January 1, but no announcement was made by the IWF, which has posted the new document on its website without any comment or accompanying announcement.
It says it will hold groundbreaking anti-doping webinars for its members in the next few weeks, in many languages, which will be far more useful than sending out a document which is full of legal definitions .