The Spanish Commission for the Fight against Doping in Sports (CELAD) assured this Wednesday that the information published by various media about irregularities in the carrying out of controls and in their management “are not true and turn out to be mere interested and biased conjectures.”
The CELAD management maintains in a statement that all these news are “the result of sensational interpretations far from current regulations and the right that every athlete has.”
The organization denies that the AEPSAD (predecessor of the current CELAD) would have paid for irregular controls for 5 years, as well as used “methods” to not sanction adverse results in doping and that it improperly kept Biological Passports of Athletes “suspended.”
Also that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) would have opened an investigation and demanded corrective actions from CELAD in relation to these alleged events.
The CELAD management has reacted publicly in this way after the Higher Sports Council (CSD) has transferred to the Prosecutor’s Office the result of an investigation carried out by the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports on alleged irregularities and asking the director of the Commission, José Luis Terreros, his resignation, which he has not presented.
The CSD announced on the 5th that it had forwarded its investigation to the Prosecutor’s Office, which is the one that must assess whether there are rational indications of the commission of a crime, but given “the reputational damage to which Spanish sport is exposed” and its system of control, its president, José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, asked José Luis Terreros to resign.
He also announced that if this did not occur, he would propose, together with the minister, Pilar Alegría, his dismissal from the next Governing Council of CELAD, which must be renewed after the formation of the new Government.
