adidas ending financial support for German anti-doping agency
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Dusseldorf, Oct. 25, 2016 (dpa/NAN) German sportswear giant adidas is ending its financial support for the country’s anti-doping agency NADA at the end of the year.
Company spokesman Oliver Brueggen told dpa on Tuesday it had informed NADA early in the year it would not be extending the sponsoring contract beyond 2016.
Brueggen said Adidas was in talks with NADA over “alternative forms of cooperation.’’
The company’s stance against doping in sport remains unaltered, Brueggen said.
“In all the contracts with our athletes it states that we will immediately end the contractual collaboration with a proven doping offence,’’ he said.
According to Bild newspaper, the current contract between adidas and NADA is worth 300,000 euros (326,600 dollars) a year.
It quoted NADA executive board chief Lars Mortsiefer as saying the agency was “very sorry’’ to be losing an original partner. No reason was given for the decision, he said.
(dpa/NAN)
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