WADA Defends President Craig Reedie After Revelation Of Note Passed To IAAF VP

The World Anti-Doping Agency "defended its British president after new claims relating to Russia's doping crisis," according to the PA. According to a BBC report, WADA President Craig Reedie wrote a note last August that was apparently passed to IAAF VP Sergei Bubka, "seemingly alerting the former pole-vault champion to a German television investigation into drugs in athletics." The BBC pictured the brief note, which ends, "Hope no more damage will be done." WADA insisted that "its president had done nothing wrong." WADA spokesperson Ben Nichols said, "This certainly was not meant to imply in any way that the WADA president wouldn't want doping issues to be exposed" (PA, 6/22).