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...increasingly red (and egg-spattered) face of the IOC just blushed one shade deeper. After finally achieving some distance from charges of corruption and pocket-lining, the beleaguered International Olympics Committee is on the block again. It seems that after examining the results of a two-year federally funded study surveying doping at the Games, the White House office of drug policy has written a scathing rebuke of the IOC, blaming the committee's haphazard screening methods for the rising incidence of athletic drug abuse. The 107-page reprimand was released Friday...
...million investigation, led by Columbia University's National Commission on Sports and Substance Abuse, revealed that some Olympic coaches and athletes believe as many as 90 percent of competitors use performance-enhancing drugs. And it's hardly any wonder, according to IOC critics, who point to the escalating financial pressures placed on elite athletes: You win any way you can, and you get the endorsements, the international fame, the cash, the eternal indebtedness of major television networks and the IOC. You lose, and you've lost...
...which there currently are no tests) unless she has a guarantee that everyone she's competing against will also be clean. And at this point athletes have no such confidence. If, however, every single athlete is bound by the rules of some legitimate authority figure - i.e., other than the IOC-run World Anti-Doping Agency, currently the reigning arbiter of drug policy - there might be some impetus for clean competition...
China has dumped almost 10% of its 311-member Olympic team, including some who failed a last-minute drug test. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed today that seven rowers--notably ace women's single sculler Zhang Xiuyun--have tested positive for the performance-enhancing drug EPO, and will not be competing in Sydney...
...support for the Olympics is well-founded. John Hancock is one of the top sponsors of the games, spending approximately $50 million over four years to advertise at the Olympics. Its endorsement goes a long way toward restoring the credibility of the games after the shameful actions of the IOC...