Former WAADA President Dick Pound talking about how he feels doping can jeopardize the future of sport, but the current people on top aren’t doing enough to stop it

Former WAADA President Dick Pound

 “All of the stakeholders in sport are fully aware of the high prevalence of doping and the dangers it presents, both to the health of athletes and to the integrity of competitions. Many of these stakeholders have a plan to deal with it. Unfortunately, their plan is to ignore the problem, pretend it does not exist, pretend to attack it vigorously, and ultimately hope that the public will get tired of hearing about it. They will then declare the sport to have been cured of the scourge, and the public will either accept the vanilla or become indifferent to the problem.”
” … The stakes are enormous. If organized sport is unable to re-find its moral compass, its future is in considerable jeopardy. Organized sport depends on support from the private sector. If the private sector loses interest in a corrupt system, it will withdraw its support, and the result will be the disappearance of international sport as we know it”
SOURCE: letsrun.com

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