The Ministry of Sport denies that Ecuador is in danger of receiving international sanctions since, it assures, no warning has been received from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA-AMA). Ecuador's sports portfolio announced that the Ecuadorian Olympic Committee will monitor the application of anti-doping controls on athletes until some legal pending requirements are met.
It is all due to a complaint filed by the Ecuadorian Anti-Doping Organization (ONADE) published on Ecuavisa.com against the Ministry of Sport for not allocating the necessary financial resources to carry out the tasks of control in this area among athletes throughout the country.
According to Jannet Emén Sánchez, executive secretary of ONADE, Ecuador is at high risk of being suspended internationally, in addition to being classified as a non-compliance with these policies vis-à-vis WADA-AMA.
The World Anti-Doping Agency is an independent organization founded with the support of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It was released on November 10, 1999 in Lausanne (Switzerland) to promote, organize and monitor the fight against doping in sport. In 2001, WADA-AMA decided to move its headquarters to Montreal, Canada, where it has been operating since 2002.
For the ONADE official, WADA-AMA will supervise the anti-doping assessment work in the country, and if international standards, including those established by its finances, have not been respected, this would lead to serious violations leading to the ban on participating in the two world championships, Yudo's one in Uzbekistan, which starts next August, and the FIFA World Cup in Qatar to be held between November and December this year.
Regarding these accusations, the Ministry of Sport announced on its official Twitter account that there is no risk of being punished, since they will directly assume the payment of all outstanding amounts. He added in his statement that “we have a very fluid relationship and a permanent contact with the World Anti-Doping Agency. That it is important to clarify that we are up to date with the annual payment to WADA-AMA with whom we are even organizing the XI Latin American Anti-Doping Legal Seminar”.
Ecuador's sports portfolio acknowledges that it has not delivered the resources indicated by ONADE, but that this does not happen because of “lack of management, but because the figure of creation in the previous period (of ministerial administration) was irregular. We will assume the outstanding obligations that ONADE has, verifying each value properly.”
The costs of ONADE, between officials and suppliers, would amount to USD 100,000, according to the executive secretary of ONADE. Emen Sánchez emphasized that this notice responds not only to the ministry's notable delay in transferring resources, but “to the serious risk that Ecuador's sport could be suspended internationally.”
The sports portfolio recognizes that funds for ONADE should be allocated in early 2021 due to intense sporting activity, stimulated by the Tokyo Olympic Games, but that the then secretary of sports wrongly signed an agreement and not a ministerial agreement, which resulted in the unenforceability of the event administrative.
The statement issued by the Ministry of Sports, published as a thread on Twitter, adds that this week President Guillermo Lasso's provision for anti-doping control to be practiced by the Ecuadorian Olympic Committee (COE) will be complied with, as established by the World Anti-Doping Code and while a law is being issued for the creation of the ONADE.
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