It seems to me that it only becomes a big deal when someone tests positive at the Olympics and is stripped of a medal. Then it becomes a big deal. For pro sports, I just think most fans don't care about how the athletes get there in the first place and just want to see them on the field.
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They have made a number of changes which have brought them much, much closer to compliance, and at this stage, FIFA and it's lawyers say, 'We have done everything we needed to do to be in full compliance. We think we are in full compliance,' ... We have our own lawyers who say, 'Well, there is still some question out there.'
Dick Pound
Pound questioned the UCI's willingness to fully investigate L'Equipe's allegations and wondered whether the cycling body was merely looking for a scapegoat. We're waiting to see whether they have a commitment to get at the truth and the whole truth before we decide to participate further in the investigation, ... If one of the issues that the UCI wants to explore is how some of this information became public, that's fine. But we're not prepared to sit by and participate in an investigation that focuses only on how the information became public.
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We can now (impose punishment) under the world anti-doping code. I'm not sure what the UCI regulation at the time may have been.
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To our great surprise and considerable disappointment, we learned indirectly this week that FIFA has submitted its own question to CAS and that they refuse to share with WADA any information whatsoever about this submission,
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I've heard that it is somebody who ran one of the preliminary rounds, not the final of one of the relays. You can ask yourself if that is why everybody is sitting on this. Is it that they don't want to give up a medal
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