“Who trusts WADA?” asks Glenn Mills

Photo: Glenn Mills, coach of Usain Bolt, speaking at the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) Symposium at the Jamaica Conference Centre, in Kingston Jamaica on Thursday

Legendary Jamaican sprint coach Glenn Mills has come out with all guns blazing and his shots are aimed directly at the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), following the recent scandal in which Russia was accused of systematic doping of its athletes, despite having a WADA accredited laboratory in that country.

Speaking at the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) Symposium at the Jamaica Conference Centre, in Kingston Jamaica on Thursday, the coach of the legendary Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt was scathing in his assessment of WADA.

“Who regulates WADA? Who checks on WADA? With what is happening in (the) IAAF scandal, who trusts WADA?” he asked.

The scandal in Russia has rocked track and field to its core, hot on the heels of the scandal that rocked football’s world governing body FIFA and the sport of football itself.

FIFA was often referred to as an organization that was a law unto themselves and Mills drew a similar parallel with the international anti-doping agency.

“Why would WADA be more angelic than IAAF or anybody, they are a law unto themselves. Who checks them? There is no regulatory body or independent body that checks WADA,” Mills stated.

 Suggesting that more skeletons may come out of the closet years from now, Mills said, “We have no guarantee that five years, ten years from now we (won’t) hear about all that WADA did, because what happened in Russia (was) with a WADA accredited lab and WADA is now setting it aside from WADA but it is a WADA accredited lab,” he insisted.

“How (do) we know that the WADA accredited lab in Canada is any better than the one in Russia where all the people are condemned? These are all WADA accredited labs where the code, the standard, is universal across the board. So how (do) we know that one don’t corrupt all?” Mills demanded.

Mills’ comments are sure to set off another fire storm as track and field tries to repairs its image ahead of the Olympic Games in Rio Brazil, in August.