Nadal tells WADA to make medical reports public

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 Nadal tells WADA to make medical reports public
Rafael Nadal saidhe has nothing to hide after his medical records were the latest to be leaked on Monday

London - Nadal and four-time Olympic champion distance runner Farah were shown to have used TUEs in the past

By AFP

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Published: Tue 20 Sep 2016, 10:38 PM

Last updated: Wed 21 Sep 2016, 12:43 AM

Rafael Nadal and British Olympic great Mo Farah said they have nothing to hide after their medical records were the latest to be leaked on Monday.
They are among more than 60 international athletes, including 17 from the British team at the Rio Olympics, who have had their medical files - mostly therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) - published online by the so-called Fancy Bears, who have hacked into World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) records.
There is no suggestion that any of the named athletes - among them some of the biggest names in sport - have done anything wrong.
Nadal and four-time Olympic champion distance runner Farah were shown to have used TUEs in the past to gain permission to take substances that figure on WADA's banned list. "When you ask permission to take something for therapeutic reasons and they give it to you, you're not taking anything prohibited," Nadal told Spanish media. "It's not news, it's just inflammatory."
Far from complaining about the leak of his files Nadal said he would support the publishing of all medical records.
"It would be much more beneficial for sportsmen and women, spectators and media that every time a drug test is taken the news is made public and two weeks later there are the results," he added.
"This would end the problem. Sport has to take a step forward and be totally transparent. I have been saying this for years."
A spokesperson for Farah said: "As Mo has previously stated, he has got nothing to hide and doesn't have a problem with this or any of his (medical) information being released - as evidenced by the fact that he voluntarily shared his blood data with the Sunday Times.
"Mo's medical care is overseen at all times by British Athletics and over the course of his long career he has only ever had two TUEs."


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