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Sep 22, 2026
Shannon RowburyGUEST
We have a case at Court of Orchestration for Sport.
Shannon RowburyGUEST
LaShinda is one of the five athletes, including myself, who had brought the case because there is a dramatic need for reform at World Anti-Doping and the ways that, you know, lack of conflict of interest, a fund to recognize athletes and support athletes.
Shannon RowburyGUEST
Like there's so much.
Shannon RowburyGUEST
And also you can go on the New York Times and see the U.S. has been withholding funding from WADA because WADA refuses to do an independent investigation.
Marie McNeelyHOST
And to jump back to an idea that we talked about previously in terms of thinking about medications that are maybe approved for clinical use versus something that's an unapproved substance, how should the sport community really think about this distinction between a medication being considered safe for an approved medical use, someone perhaps needs like a corticosteroid for asthma, for example, and using some other steroid medication in healthy athletes for performance enhancement?
Aaron BaggishGUEST
The first very practical thing to say about this is that when we prescribe a medication with the clear indication that is on any banned list, whether it's the WADA banned list, the USADA banned list, we do so under the guise of something called a therapeutic use exemption.
Aaron BaggishGUEST
And in doing so, we specify exactly what medication is being used at exactly what dose for what condition.
Aaron BaggishGUEST
And we also indicate that there are no comparable medical alternatives.
Jenni FalconerHOST
Kenya's had a pretty difficult few years with doping and whilst there is an effort to clean up its reputation, well over 100 Kenyan athletes have been sanctioned in recent years, including some huge names.
Jenni FalconerHOST
And it has placed the country under serious scrutiny from the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Jenni FalconerHOST
So whilst, yes, it's an historic honour for the sport in Africa, the decision is not proving popular with everyone and is adding a bit of tension.
Jenni FalconerHOST
London, which last hosted the biennial event in 2017, missed out along with Rome.
Jason PineHOST
We talked about that yesterday, I think.
Jason PineHOST
Andy made the very good point that it sounds a bit like WADA, the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Jason PineHOST
We don't want that associated with it.
Jason PineHOST
Look, I know... that they want to try and wire it up, as it were.
Finn MelansonHOST
He'd try to win the Arizona Monster, et cetera.
Finn MelansonHOST
Then later this spring on Cam Haynes' podcast, he admitted to taking a banned substance on the World Anti-Doping Agency list, BPC-157, which allowed him to recover faster from back problems, return to training and racing sooner.
Finn MelansonHOST
This caused a massive debate in the community.
Finn MelansonHOST
One of the open questions that I believe is increasingly lev- relevant right now is how were races gonna handle that very public admission in addition to the governing and testing bodies? For example, would, would Cocodona and the Arizona Monster remove his 2026 results? And then would races like Tor Des Geants even let him line up to race? What would the penalty be? Mike just raced Tor this past week.
Alex LarsonGUEST
I will also say that, um, there was a 2026 survey that, um, surveyed, uh, sports medicine physicians, and there is a real concern among them about GLP-1 use in endurance and weight-sensitive athletes.
Alex LarsonGUEST
Um, and, uh, let's see, semaglutide and tirzepatide, those two are added to the World Anti-Doping Agency's 2026 monitoring program.
Alex LarsonGUEST
So they, they're not a prohibited drug, but they are being monitored to see if there's gonna be any patterns of misuse with them.
Alex LarsonGUEST
Um, so just keep that in mind too, that that's also on people's radar with these drugs.
Jack KreindlerGUEST
You know, we've talked about anti-doping.
Jack KreindlerGUEST
The World Anti-Doping Association doesn't really care so much about some of the stuff you put in the bag.
Jack KreindlerGUEST
What does it care about? The volume.
Jack KreindlerGUEST
It's the amount that's in the bag that they don't like
Andrew BreeGUEST
Whatever was going on, all my sinuses, you know, were all kind of messed up.
Andrew BreeGUEST
And I was like, "Right, okay." So I got this thing, right? Checked it, World Anti-Doping Association database.
Andrew BreeGUEST
Checked it the way it was spelt on the actual thing, right? Nothing found.
Andrew BreeGUEST
Sweet.
CaruanaHOST
Just because you took something that your doctor or a teammate gave you and you didn't know it was banned, that's not their fault, that's on you.
CaruanaHOST
So how do we combat drug testing? So we've got WADA internationally and locally here we've got the SIA.
CaruanaHOST
Drug testing itself is highly invasive, direct observing of blood samples, direct observing of urine samples, and especially coming from children as well, which can be done by a chaperone, but still very traumatic to go through.
CaruanaHOST
Athletes also must apply to the whereabouts rule.
James KingGUEST
I must say there's not a lot of evidence around this, but there's a lot of debate.
James KingGUEST
In fact, the World Anti-Doping Agency have these GLP-1 based drugs on their monitoring list.
James KingGUEST
So they're not banned by athletes, but there's enough concern that they want to monitor their use.
James KingGUEST
I mean, in terms of the actual, you know, could there be any benefit? I mean, there's been some research survey of coaches and this sort of thing.
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