Boks, Proteas could lose SA flag at World Cups, says global doping authority
South Africa's sporting federations - including the Springboks and Proteas - face the prospect of losing their national standing with the World Anti-Doping Agency . WADA is threatening that South African national teams might not be allowed to play under their country's flags at major sporting events.
This is particularly relevant to South Africa given the Springboks' current participation at the Rugby World Cup in France and the Proteas' efforts at the Cricket World Cup in India, which starts on Thursday. "In the cases of the Bermuda and South Africa NADOs, the non-compliance is a result of legislation not in line with the [updated] 2021 Code.
That places immediate pressure on South Africa's Department of Sport, Arts and Recreation to act, in some way, to avoid what would be a calamitous and embarrassing situation for two of its flagship teams to endure on the biggest stage. "WADA has been very rigid with this process and we've been negotiating over the past six months, but they're very rigid with deadlines and accepting legislative processes," Galant said.
"There has also been input by WADA in working with us to draft the South African Institute for Drug-Free Sport Amendment Bill, which will now be taken through the South African Constitutional process of finalising a bill," he said. "I officially communicated with WADA president Witold Banka on South Africa’s position, and have requested to meet with him urgently. South Africa is committed to anti-doping in sport. Saids has done much work to meet the evolving dynamics of compliance in global sport on matters of anti-doping, anti-corruption, governance reforms, child safeguarding and data protection.
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