Athletics doping crisis: New independent body would need powers that it cannot expect to be granted
The IndependentThe best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Lord Coe has said that an entirely independent doping body is needed. But to root out doping, that independent body would need powers that no organisation, not even Interpol, has ever been granted: namely, the power to sneak unannounced into sovereign nations and rumble doping programmes that are institutionalised and centrally controlled. A recent inquiry by the Dutch national doping agency estimated doping to be “between 14 and 39 per cent”.
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