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Anti-doping the Fraud Behind the Stage

16 November 2000

The head of research at the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI), Sandro Donati (photo), recounts his personal story about twenty years of fighting against doping in Italian and international sport. An unbelievable story which...[more]




New horizons or deja vue?

16 November 2000

It is not often that a member of the IOC gets invited to a conference organized by the media, or, if invited, is prepared to accept. So, if I occasionally sound like Daniel in the lion's den, I hope you will forgive me.[more]




Playing the Game Fair

14 November 2000

The Sydney 2000 Olympic Games represent a significant turning point in the fight for fair and equitable competition. Drug cheats are now finding fewer and fewer places to hide.[more]




Sport is Confronted with a Crisis of Confidence Never Seen Before

02 February 1999

Doping is the negation of the very essence of sport. The fight against doping is a question of survival of the Olympic movement and international top sport in general.[more]




Hunting the Shadows - (or: Just Don't Do It)

31 August 1998

The international fight against doping, as headed by the IOC and the big federations, is at best hypocritical and at worst disastrous. Education and personal responsability must be a new key word in a national doping policy.[more]




Genetically engineered athletes are just around the corner


Australian scientist Robin Parisotto developed a groundbreaking EPO test in the run-up to the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. Now he has begun work on a test that can discover if athletes have used genetic doping to augment their...[more]




The Balco Story How Reporting It Changed US Sports


The U.S. Balco affair consisted of a systematic and calculated method to circomvent sports drug testing rules by using sophisticated and oftentimes undetecable performance enhancing substances. Elliott Almond spoke at the Play...[more]




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