‘NO KEY LINK BETWEEN TUE, OLYMPIC MEDAL’

MONTREAL: There’s no meaningful link between an athlete having a Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) and winning an Olympic medal, a study unveiled by the World AntiDoping Agency (WADA) found. The WADA study examined athletes with TUEs at the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Summer Olympics and the 2010 Vancouver, 2014 Sochi and 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics to see if athletes with TUEs won more medals than those without. “The number of athletes competing with valid TUEs (in individual competition) at the selected Games was less than 1%,” said WADA medical director Dr Alan Vernec.