Commentary by John Leonard, ASCA & WSCA
With the latest series of rulings by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), it has become clear that the world’s clean swimmers must fend for themselves. The entire “Olympic Circus” exists for the dollars to flow, and all verbiage of “zero tolerance” is utter nonsense. In point of fact, ANYTHING that disrupts the flow of dollars via the TV contracts and sponsor dollars is the only thing where “zero tolerance” is actually demonstrated. The primary “mover” of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is “the Games (with our best athletes) must go on”.
Protection of doped athletes, at the expense of CLEAN SWIMMERS, is the reality. The world’s majority of swimmers, who are clean, suffer for the few who pervert sport into “the circus”. They lose money, fame and opportunity due to cheaters in every sort of event. This is not sport, this is IOC “entertainment”.
THE ATHLETES ARE THE SHOW. Atheletes must band together and demand simple, direct solutions to the doping crisis, or suffer the continuing affronts to their efforts. The “bad guys” are the IOC (ringmasters of the circus) and all downstream from them, including the International Federations, the National Olympic Committees, the national sports federations, and the obviously mis-named World Anti-Doping Association (WADA). CAS is included, protecting the guilty, rather than the innocent, in the name of “fairness”. Utter nonsense.
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