WADA president warns athletes of illegal doping at London 2012 Olympic Games
John Fahey, who is the president of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has recently issued a warning to all the athletes that will be participating in the upcoming London 2012 Olympic Games about the use of performance enhancing drugs. Fahey has said that the athletes who are planning to make use of the performance enhancing drugs in order to secure medals at the Olympic Games should withdraw their names from the international sporting event.
Fahey commented on the issue of the performance enhancing drugs in the following manner, “I say this in the clearest way possible: if you are a doping athlete and you are planning to compete in London then you must withdraw from your Olympic team. Doping is cheating, plain and simple. And if you compete in London as a doped athlete then not only will you be cheating your fellow athletes, you will be cheating sports fans across the world, doing a disservice to your national flag and flouting the ideals of the Olympic Movement.”
The athletes who will come to London to take part in the Olympic Games that are scheduled to start from July 27 will undergo doping tests in the training camps before the Games start. The total number of tests that will be carried out for the purpose of detecting illegal drugs in the athletes will be 6250. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) as well as the London Olympic organizers will be in charge of conducting the tests.
According to Fahey, the London Olympic Games have incorporated state of the art systems and procedures for the detection of illegal drugs and the athletes who have made use of the performance enhancing drugs will have the least possible chance of slipping away undetected.
During the time that the Olympic Games took place in Beijing, the total number of cases of doping that were caught amounted to be 20. Previously, the Athens Olympics in the year 2004 had a total of 26 cases that were related to illegal doping.
Despite the repeated warnings issued by WADA and the IOC, there are still chances that some athletes may be found to have taken the illegal drugs to enhance their performance at the Games.
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