Wadler Passes

Gary Wadler, who led the anti-doping charge, died.

Wadler testified in front of Congress in the 1990s about the way doping was undercutting the Olympics and threatening the health of elite athletes and, potentially, those who tried to emulate them.

He chaired the World Anti-Doping Agency committee that considers which substances should be banned in sports, and was a leading critic of the way American sports leagues, especially the NFL and Major League Baseball, ran their anti-doping programs.

My thoughts go out to his family and friends.

I was not a fan. Walder always struck me as someone who was too sure of his moral standing, and too sure of the moral failings of others. It was his way, or you were doing it wrong. There always seemed to be a conflict of interest with him.

That said, and given a lot of years, he did a lot to bring the problem to light, and I suspect a lot of athletes who didn’t want to dope thank him for that.

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