{"id":296058,"date":"2018-02-13T09:58:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T16:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=296058"},"modified":"2018-02-13T09:58:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T16:58:58","slug":"world-swim-coaches-call-for-unity-to-ensure-clean-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-swim-coaches-call-for-unity-to-ensure-clean-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"World Swim Coaches Call For Unity To Ensure Clean Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Swim Coaches Association issued a statement reinforcing the basic ideal of Olympic sports and the need to ensure that clean sport is the cornerstone of all Olympic Sports.\u00a0 The statement was issued by <strong>George Block<\/strong>, President of WSCA on behalf of the WSCA Board.<\/p>\n<h2>The entire WSCA Board statement appears below:<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"296060\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-swim-coaches-call-for-unity-to-ensure-clean-sport\/wsca-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/wsca.png\" data-orig-size=\"800,595\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"wsca\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;9\/21\/18&lt;br \/&gt;\nwsca&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/wsca-700x500.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/wsca.png\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-296060\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/wsca-269x200.png\" alt=\"wsca\" width=\"200\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/wsca-269x200.png 269w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/wsca-533x396.png 533w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/wsca.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>To:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 World Swimming Media<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>From:\u00a0\u00a0 George Block, President<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Date:\u00a0\u00a0 13 February 2018<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Re:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Statement from the WSCA Board<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>One of the Olympic ideals is respect, yet it has become abundantly clear that the international leaders of our sports have traded this ideal for convenience and self-dealing.\u00a0 To have respect, one must recognize that cheating ruins the sport for both the competitors that are now victims, but also participants and fans who no longer respect that anyone is competing fairly.\u00a0\u00a0 Thus, today, we are calling on athletes, coaches and leaders from around the world and across the aquatics sports to unite and fight to ensure that clean sport still is the cornerstone of swimming and all Olympic sports.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The \u201cRussia Crisis\u201d that has loomed from Sochi, through Rio and now, on to PyeongChang has clearly demonstrated that the IOC is no longer interested in either Clean Sport or Fair Sport.\u00a0 What the world has witnessed over the past four years is the \u201cabject failure of the international anti-doping system,\u201d according to Bill Bock, the General Counsel of the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The current \u201csolution\u201d being proposed, the Independent Testing Authority (ITA), is not the solution, as it attempts to fix a failed system with a broken system. \u00a0In fact, ITA will be neither Independent, nor an Authority, with 50% government representatives (for whom this is the last thing on their to-do list) and 50% IOC board members (for whom this allows control of Olympic anti-doping efforts).\u00a0 We are back to the \u201cfox guarding the hen house.\u201d\u00a0 We should have recognized how broken the proposed solution was when the first positive response came from TASS (the official Russian news agency).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There is nothing we can do to affect the IOC; however, we can affect FINA. \u00a0To start, FINA must get serious about anti-doping &#8211; now.\u00a0 That means that FINA should push back and not succumb to massive pressure from the IOC to become part of the ITA. \u00a0Rather, FINA should create its own Swimming Integrity Unit that is completely independent of the FINA government structure with a committed, long-term funding structure. \u00a0Fortunately, that path has been blazed by the leaders of the IAAF, the International Federation for Track and Field.\u00a0 The IAAF has developed an independent \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iaaf.org\/news\/press-release\/independent-athletics-integrity-unit.\">Athletics Integrity Unit<\/a>.\u201c \u00a0This unit will be completely independent of the IAAF governance structure, but with long-term, guaranteed funding.\u00a0 It will handle anti-doping, as well as bribery, corruption, conflicts of interest, and more.\u00a0 It will have jurisdiction over anything that threatens the integrity of the sport.\u00a0 This is the model that FINA should follow.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Every coach and athlete should be contacting their own National Federation to insist that their federation supports real independence, by not succumbing to IOC pressure, but instead supporting the creation of a FINA Swimming Integrity Unit.\u00a0 Working together, around the world and across the aquatics sports, we have the opportunity to return respect to FINA sports, and once again have clean and fair sports.\u00a0 Let\u2019s all work together to turn this into a reality.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; color: #53565a;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic; background: white;\">All commentaries are the opinion of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views\u00a0of Swimming World Magazine nor its staff.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Swim Coaches Association issued a statement reinforcing the basic ideal of Olympic sports and the need to ensure that clean sport is the cornerstone of all Olympic 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