This is not a new issue. This has been on the table since the host city contract was signed nearly seven years ago. The onus of resolving the issue is in the hands of the games' organizers.
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In due course, a disciplinary commission will be set up. (It) can work after the Games and look at issues that happened at Games time.Giselle Davies
It's not an issue we've had in any shape or form here. I don't want to speculate per se of this becoming a bigger phenomenon, but it would be fair to say that if there were more and more of these coins or pins put in the ice, then it would be something we'd need to make sure there's common sense and it doesn't get out of hand, really in line with all our clean-venue policies.
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The IOC means business in the fight against doping. It will use the means necessary to find out where athletes are. Unannounced testing reduces the possibility for any means to be used that might ultimately affect the results of the test.
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We're used to campaign groups using the Olympics as a platform for their campaigns. The IOC is not a human rights monitoring organization.
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Today we have a totally different and accountable system.
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There have been 161 tests. Up to today there are no positive doping tests.
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