Ninety-five per cent of any changes that are required could be done by the FIFA executive committee. I think there's only one, which would be the sanction period, which requires their congress. If they have their mind to, they could do this pretty quickly. |
not going to be all that much. |
Nothing in cycling surprises me. |
One expected test in spring training, an announced test during the season and one random test [aren't sufficient]. They need targeted testing. |
Our concern was that that's exactly the sort of thing that might be there. We did not know if it was here in Italy. |
Our suggestion has been to (Verbruggen), 'Why are you looking farther than the UCI in respect of disclosure?' |
Poisoned by his mother? It is good, very good. It ranks up there with 'I got it from the toilet seat' (on Shane Warne's explanation for using a banned substance) |
public statements about the likely guilt of an athlete on the basis of a newspaper article and without all the facts being known. |
reforms which will prevent this from happening again. |
So he's going to appeal again with the same defense in front of CAS? There's no reason to believe that another panel of disinterested persons will find it any differently. |
Summer, that's when people use the [steroids] so you get the benefit of it but the stuff's out of your system by the time you come to be tested. And if they say one of your two tests is going to be at training camp then all you do is stop doing things a month or three weeks ahead of time. |
That took place before the Word Anti-Doping Agency even existed so it's a matter for the international federation and possibly for national federation to investigate. But what is good for me is it's a lesson to anybody using drugs that we may not catch you on day one, but sooner or later, the truth will come out. Now the riders involved have a serious responsibility to explain how it is that the substance got into the system. |
That's not a lot of tests spread across 35 Olympic sports and 202 countries. |
The application of the (Italian) law did have a deterrent effect. The fact that we ended up with a joint operation I think sends a very strong signal. |
The ATP is essentially an association of players, so there is some conflict of interest in that relationship. We believe drug-testing and result management should be independent. |