Drug-free Olympics will never happen, insists IOC chief Rogge

INTERNATIONAL Olympic Committee (IOC) chief Jacques Rogge has said that those who hope for a 100% drug-free Olympic Games were ‘naive’ and that cheating was part and parcel of human nature.

Wed, 26 Nov, 2008 - 00:00

“I think one has to be realistic. Drug-free sport in general is Utopia. It will be naive to believe that no-one will take drugs.

“There are about 400 million people practising sport on this globe, there are not 400 million saints on earth.

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