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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

Mary Akor , an American marathoner known for frequent racing, has failed a drug test and accepted a two-year ban from competition, retroactive to May 6, 2013, the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced today . Akor tested positive for Clenbuterol, a bronchodilator and anabolic agent, at a Mexican marathon in December 2012. All of her competitive results between December 6, 2012 and November 5, 2013, when Akor accepted her sanction, have been disqualified, including prize money. Akor, 37, ran her PR of 2:33:50 at the 2006 Twin Cities Marathon . She was a member of the U.S. marathon team at the 2005 and 2007 world championships. She is best known for frequently running national-class marathon performances; for example, she had 11 qualifying times for the 2008 Olympic Marathon Trials. This year, she won the Woodlands Marathon, in Woodlands, Texas, on March 2, in 2:41:15, and the Pittsburgh Marathon, on May 5, in 2:37:15. Two weeks after winning Pittsburgh, she ran her

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