Sir Craig Reedie, the president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, issued an apology over the suspension of the Doha laboratory that came just days before a meeting of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) in Qatar this week.
Reedie found himself ambushed by an incensed ANOC President Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, who is also a member of the IOC and president of the Olympic Council of Asia, at the meeting.
Sheikh Ahmad criticized the timing of the Doha lab's suspension in the context of deeper frictions between the Olympic Movement and WADA over the handling of the Russian athletics doping scandal, according to InsidetheGames.com.
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"There were questions of timing with the report," he said of the McLaren report that was issued just months before the Rio Olympic Games. "And now we see it again with Doha, not because of cheating but because of procedures. The decision was only made on November 7, but came here on the day of the General Assembly."
Reedie assured that the timing of the suspension was not intentional. "I apologise fully that this happened," he said.
"I decided that the process should be finished on Wednesday last week (November 9), I hoped it would be finished before the General Assembly in Doha."
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