Punish dope cheats and connections more severely, says IOC president
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach wants state authorities to practise to a greater extent than to severely punish those behind doping, including the dealers, agents, coaches, doctors together with scientists involved.
Speaking at this week’s World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)’s 2013 World Conference on Doping inwards Sport inwards Johannesburg, South Africa, the President called for the mutual care against doping to travel stepped upward together with strengthened to protect the “majority of athletes who are clean”.
“What nosotros demand is the greatest possible deterrence. All of us gathered hither inwards Johannesburg are united inwards our zero-tolerance mental attitude to doping. The IOC (International Olympic Committee) will proceed to pursue this care alongside keen conclusion together with clear measures.”
President Bach called for fifty-fifty greater cooperation alongside all partners, including regime authorities together with anti-doping organisations, at national together with regional levels.
“We demand a ameliorate telephone commutation of information betwixt dry reason authorities, the sports crusade together with the national anti-doping organisations,” he said. “We hold back governments to practise ameliorate weather condition for cooperation alongside sport, particularly inwards price of telephone commutation of information.”
Backing a alter inwards the WADA Code that would run across the sanction for serious violations changed from ii to iv years, the President said that an improved Code was non plenty inwards itself.
“Even a much-improved Code is non plenty past times itself,” he said. “As inwards sport, what counts is the termination on the field. We demand fifty-fifty to a greater extent than sophisticated targeted tests, to a greater extent than private profiling together with to a greater extent than scientific research.”
And he urged farther question inwards the hunt for novel ways to grab the cheats: “We should travel focusing on anti-doping research. And likewise inwards this area, nosotros should travel opened upward to novel ways of thinking. Is it non fourth dimension to discovery out, for example, whether blood together with urine tests are actually the best together with ultimate solution? Might in that place travel other testing methods, which are fifty-fifty to a greater extent than reliable, to a greater extent than sustainable, to a greater extent than effective, together with mayhap fifty-fifty less intrusive?” he asked.
The President likewise promised that the testing programme for Sochi 2014 would travel the nigh stringent inwards the history of the Olympic Winter Games, together with would characteristic targeted testing both earlier together with during the contest period, using information from sport together with anti-doping agencies worldwide.
“With a tape break of samples together with pre-competition tests, nosotros shall travel smarter together with tougher inwards our care against doping than at whatever previous Olympic Winter Games. We shall perform these tests anywhere inwards the the world – every bit a to a greater extent than effective, to a greater extent than flexible, ameliorate deterrent. We shall improve our anti-doping scheme alongside consider to both character together with quantity,” he said.
“In fellowship to accomplish this, the IOC has increased the break of pre-competition tests from 804 for Vancouver to 1,269 for Sochi. That is an increment of 57 per cent. In all, nosotros volition perform 2,453 tests, compared alongside 2,149 inwards Vancouver. That is an increment of fourteen per cent – alongside a special focus on squad sports,” he added.
Taking house from 12 to xv November, the 2013 World Conference on Doping inwards Sport is the 4th of its kind, alongside the leading stakeholders inwards the worldwide anti-doping community inwards attendance. The WADA Foundation Board is scheduled to vote on changes to the WADA Code on xv November. The Board volition likewise elect a novel President to supervene upon John Fahey, whose term of component division concludes at the terminate of 2013.
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