IOC wants swift and tough punishment for doping offenders
Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee attends a news conference after an Executive Board meeting in Lausanne March 27, 2019. — Reuters pic
Five athletes, including two Austrians, were initially arrested on February 27 at the Nordic skiing world championships in the Austrian resort of Seefeld. “I hope that this is not dragging on, that their justice will really set an example. I hope there will be hard sanctions to have a deterrent effect on everybody,” he added.According to German prosecutors, the doping of the 21 athletes from five sports — three winter and two summer — occurred from 2011 onwards and blood transfusions took place in many countries across the world.
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