There's been an awful lot of rumor and accusation about him for a number of years, always of the he-said, she-said variety. This appears -- I haven't seen the documents myself -- to have some documentary connection. That's a lot more serious. It's got to be taken more seriously. |
There's not much of a middle ground, is there? |
They are convinced they are fully compliant. We'll have a look at that and see whether or not we agree. |
They deal with the statistic as if I was talking about steroids. I was talking about the full menu of performance enhancing substances. |
They found EPO in some samples and said 'Holy smoke, this is alarming, |
They found EPO in some samples and said 'Holy smoke, this is alarming. So we told them to go ahead and extend the study since we'd like to know when this started. |
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.' |
They may say .... we are running our business the way we want to and we don't care about what anybody thinks about what our players do or how we may enforce or not enforce our policy. |
They said it's simply research. |
They've been playing with fire in having an association with this guy. |
This draws a stake through the heart of the once sacrosanct argument that in order to have a doping infraction you must come with an analytical positive. |
This independent opinion confirms that FIFA anti-doping rules do not comply with the World Anti-Doping Code. |
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, |
Using EPO and some of these things are pretty sophisticated doping activities. It's not just done by a cyclist acting on his own. I don't think there's a basis for their complaint. |
Verbruggen was the leak |