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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