Monday, November 26, 2012

The IOC supports President supports doubling doping suspensions to 4-years

If the proposal passes and I suspect it will, a doping violation no matter what the context means you will miss an an Olympic games.

From The Washington Post:
"AMSTERDAM — IOC President Jacques Rogge supports proposals to double the length of doping bans to four years as a way of keeping drug cheats out of the Olympics.

The World Anti-Doping Agency is planning to raise the penalty from two to four years for serious drug violations in the next version of the global anti-doping code, which comes up for approval next year and goes into effect in 2015. ..." 
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