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Our whole approach has been about finding a navigable solution through this, i didn’t come into the sport to stop people competing, I came into the sport to find a reason to allow them to compete.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The issue for me is very simple, of course, I recognize that both with DSD and with transgender, these are societal issues. I don’t have the luxury, however, of being intimately involved in that debate. My responsibility is to protect the integrity of women’s sport.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The world is horrified by what Russia has done, aided and abetted by Belarus. World leaders sought to avoid this invasion through diplomatic means but to no avail given Russia’s unswerving intention to invade Ukraine. The unprecedented sanctions that are being imposed on Russia and Belarus by countries and industries all over the world appear to be the only peaceful way to disrupt and disable Russia’s current intentions and restore peace., anyone who knows me will understand that imposing sanctions on athletes because of the actions of their government goes against the grain. I have railed against the practice of politicians targeting athletes and sport to make political points when other sectors continue about their business. This is different as governments, business and other international organizations have imposed sanctions and measures against Russia across all sectors. Sport has to step up and join these efforts to end this war and restore peace. We can not and should not sit this one out.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I speak to the athletes all the time, the vast majority of athletes... are understanding that it will not be the type of Olympic Games they’ve experienced before... but they still know they would rather be here than sit out the dance. It’s important for them.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We know this is a stressful situation for many athletes and we are trying to provide meaningful assistance ... so they can continue to train for the competition season we have scheduled for August to October, and for next year's Olympics.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Sadly, it is the world we live in, it is inevitable that outstanding performance, given the nature of trust, is permanently in question. I think we have to be careful about how we draw judgement on the performance.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The AIU are permanently vigilant and there are tests that are intelligence-led, it is important that the unit is given the opportunity and the time to be vigilant and acts when it needs, but we also have to be protective of athletes' reputations, so it needs a sensible proportion of balance.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We have the AIU (Athletics Integrity Unit), it clearly will take a big interest in the findings from USADA, i am entirely comfortable and very confident that the AIU will want to look at the whole case and want to think about the implications.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We had a medical facility there which I don't think I've ever seen in any championship, Olympics or world championships, in Seville( 1999), we were dealing with 41 degrees of temperature. I went to Edmonton( 2001), the numbers in the stadium make this look like a first-class problem.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
A banned coach has to sever relationships with those athletes. That's what's taking place, coaches and athletes have to make judgments all the time. If you are coached by somebody, you should be absolutely comfortable that you are working in an environment that's safe and secure and is not going to damage you own reputation. An athlete should ask those questions.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
They are very pleased to be here, yes, we could have done with more spectators in the stadium but there are pretty understandable reasons why that has been a challenge.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It can't keep going back to the same eight or nine places that we've always sort of focused on in the past, we need to make sure, where we possibly can, we take cost out. Just make it an easier business proposition for a city to want to take us on board.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We have given the opportunity for the athletes to ingest a tablet, it has a thermometer and can allow us to monitor the way they are dealing with heat and humidity, this has given us the opportunity and conditions for our medical teams and science teams to understand a great deal more about management of heat for athletes going forward.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The largest challenge we face is to maintain our sport at the top of the sporting pyramid and to remain exciting and salient for young people.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
There has been a lot of effort and time taken to understand the technology which will be transferable but this has given us an opportunity to do a lot of work through our medical teams around the management of heat, those findings will probably be more applicable and more profound for us going forward to Tokyo than they will be here.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It is very straightforward for any association in sport, athletics has two classifications - it has age and it has gender. We are fiercely protective of both. We are really grateful that CAS has upheld that principle.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We believe that ultimately these changes will be beneficial not only to Kenyan and East African distance runners, but to our leading athletes around the globe, because it will result in a stronger, higher-profile, commercially-successful annual showcase series for our sport, and it's important to remember that the IAAF will be creating other continental competition opportunities outside the Diamond League as we redesign the global calendar.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Trust is not going to come over night, it is not as if you make five changes and trust will follow in two weeks' time, it may be the case that trust does not return until way beyond my term in office.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I am president of an international federation which is under serious investigations and I represent a sport under intense scrutiny, my vision is to have a sport that attracts more young people. The average age of those watching track and field is 55 years old. This is not sustainable.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I have sought advice from the IAAF's Ethics Committee to review my interests and was told I could retain my positions in Nike and CSM as long as I do not seek to influence any decisions that could influence them, i'm grateful for that advice but it is clear that perception and reality have become horribly mangled.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I think it should be cleared up once and for all how sick this is, there is a huge lack of morals and transparency that is wrong and unacceptable.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I did not lobby anyone on behalf of the Eugene 2021 bid, after their narrow defeat (to Doha) for the 2019 world championships I encouraged them to re-enter another bidding cycle as they had a strong bid.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
To regain membership to the IAAF the new federation would have to fulfil a list of criteria, an inspection team will be led by Independent Chair Rune Andersen, an independent international anti-doping expert (Norwegian) and three members of the IAAF Council who will be appointed in the next few days.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We will get the change we want and only then will Russian athletes return to international competition, this is not about politics, this is about the protection of clean athletes. I cannot overstate the feeling around the conference call this evening about sending the strongest possible message that we can.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Given the cloud that hangs over our association this is clearly not the time for the global athletics family to be gathering in celebration.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It is slightly the territory we have inherited and one of my responsibilities is to move us off that territory, we are more than just a discussion about test tubes, blood and urine.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
That is ideal but I am also aware that there are some technical issues which sometimes mean it is not possible, where it is possible, we should always look to try and help them.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We shouldn't be concerned because we have a sport that is adorned by some of the most outrageously superhuman, talented individuals in any sport, our challenge is to make sure the public know that there are other athletes in our sport.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I was dismayed to see the interpretation put on our motives, our judgments and our actions, there is nothing in the history of our sport in the last 15 or 20 years other than us being on the cutting edge of either trying to develop the science of weeding out the cheats or taking the actions appropriate to finding them.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Of course we have to utilize every ounce of technology available to us, because our challenge is always to protect the rights of the clean athletes to compete knowing that they are competing on a level playing field, that every athlete starts out equally with an opportunity to win or to lose.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The assumption that we are not sharing this information is wholly false.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We have led the way on out-of-competition independent testing, we have led the way on laboratories, we were the first sport to have arbitration panels, we introduced blood passports in 2009 because we wanted to elevate the science around weeding out the cheats.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We have got some of the highest profile names out of the sport in the last few years, this has caused us intense embarrassment but we have always taken the view that we would rather have short-term embarrassment and protect the clean athletes.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We have got some of the highest profile names out of the sport in the last few years, this hasn't been easy for us, this has caused us intense embarrassment but we have always taken the view that we would rather have short-term embarrassment and protect the clean athletes.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
What has angered me and angered our sport is the betrayal that we are doing absolutely nothing when we have led the way on this and have consistently done so, every athlete at the world championships in 2011 and 2013 was subject to blood tests, that's unprecedented. We spend two million dollars a year( on anti-doping) and we are not a rich sport, we have 10 full time professionals.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I think you'd be pretty surprised if I did sit here and was sanguine about that, i personally have big problems with it.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
You have to say that the scope and scale of these allegations takes it beyond simply a competitor deciding to step beyond the moral boundary, the very fact that the allegations are in the public domain means that they are serious. So, we have to be very clear that this is a very, very difficult time for our sport.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
You have to say that the scope and scale of these allegations takes it beyond simply a competitor deciding to step beyond the moral boundary, this is not in every country of the world, there are 213 federations. But you do have to say a disproportionate amount of the reputational damage is in a relatively small number of countries, and I think we have to recognize this.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
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