The International Federation forgave a sanction to Jordan Díaz after skipping three anti-doping controls

This has been revealed by Relevo, which in a report by Natalia Torrente, “after months of work in collaboration with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)”, denounces “the cracks in the anti-doping system.”

Relevo explains that the athletes included by the International Athletics Federation in the RTP (Registered Testing Pool) group, accumulate a failure if an agent appears to perform an anti-doping test and they are not at the indicated time at the whereabouts that they themselves have included in ADAMS (the information collection and coordination system of the World Anti-Doping Agency). If they add three in a period of one year from the first, the sanction established by the World Anti-Doping Agency is two years without competing, as was applied with Mo Katir.

However In the case of Jordan Díaz, an “exception” was appliedand the jumper was not sanctioned despite making these three failed attempts since he had exceeded the deadlines established for making allegations. Relevo denounces that World Athletics canceled “the first failure when the third had already been committed (which would lead to a sanction according to the regulations), instead of doing so when the first was committed given the context that explained its absence.”

That first failed location attempt took place on June 29, 2021, when Jordan Díaz was not in the location that he himself indicated in ADAMS, next to the Cuban expedition in Oslo (Norway). Born in Havana (Cuba), he had taken advantage of the Cuban concentration in Castellón a day earlier, on June 28, 2021, to defect and, later, process the license to compete for Spain. The International Athletics Federation registered a failure because Jordan, who had two months from his desertion to explain his failure to locate, until August 24, 2021, decided not to appeal.

An irregular forgiveness

According to Relevo, the subsequent forgiveness, outside the deadlines for allegations and when the athlete had already committed the third failed, on April 21, 2022«evidence that the anti-doping system does not work and is applied arbitrarily with the full knowledge of all institutions, whether at the international or national level, involved in the fight against clean sport. “Both the World Anti-Doping Agency, the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation (RFEA) and the CELAD (Spanish Commission for Anti-Doping in Sports), were aware of the management of Jordan Díaz by the International Federation and did not appeal.”

Natalia Torrente explains that when Relevo contacted the athlete and his entourage to verify the information, “he found an incomprehensible reaction from his representative, Alberto Suárez, who issued a forceful threat to this medium: ‘You are going to be banned from for life, on the part of Jordan and any of the athletes I represent.’

Relevo also echoes that “a couple of hours later it was Jordan Díaz himself who shared a message about the information, which was not yet published, on his official X profile”, in which he warned about the publication of “a false and defamatory information causing serious damage and harm to me and sponsors. “Given this, I will take all legal and judicial measures in my power to clear my name.”