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There are those who have been allowed to compete even though they should be provisionally suspended, there are loopholes in the different segments of the sports world where you can be banned by some groups and still compete in others. – James Ferstle	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It does not happen overnight, while funding for WADA and other national anti-doping organizations has increased, it is still not adequate to deal with the problem. – James Ferstle	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Don Catlin, one of the pioneers in sports drug testing told me back in the '70s that for each positive drug test, the athlete who was busted was not a triumph for the anti-doping movement, but rather a failure of the system, the system had not convinced those who give in to the temptation that doping was not an attractive option. – James Ferstle	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The culture needs to favor the clean athletes rather than the win-at-all costs mentality that has the upper hand today, unless we do change the culture, there will continue to be scandals. – James Ferstle	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Unless you have a precedent, cases that have met the challenge of getting through a legal battle, there is often a reluctance to prosecute a case where the science shows a doping violation but the law may not allow a sanction to be imposed for that offense. – James Ferstle	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If the cameras had followed me from the mound in 2007 to the hospital with my feeding tube, chemotherapy and radiation, I don't think a lot of kids would have taken up dipping, or at least they might've stopped. – Curt Schilling	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. – Sebastian Coe	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. – Sebastian Coe	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The assumption that we are not sharing this information is wholly false. – Sebastian Coe	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Athletics is the most fundamental of all sports and the way the world sees athletics influences the way it views all sports, we must be more proactive and even more transparent in our aggressive pursuit of a zero tolerance policy against doping cheats. – Sergei Bubka	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We are very happy with the numbers. – Donovan Ferretti	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We are going to have some turnover on the National Team as we look towards the Rio Olympics and the next Women's World Cup in France, but that's always part of the natural evolution, it will be the job of the players and staff to keep up the world-class level of effort and intensity to meet the high. expectations of this program. – Jill Ellis	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If that means going back 10 years and redistributing medals to the rightful athletes, so be it, it's never too late to do the right thing. – Shalane Flanagan	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We'll hear some bad news but at the end of the day, you would rather hear it than have it happen in the background that no one is going to talk about, the sport will emerge stronger from this. – Kyle Merber	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
One of the greatest crimes is stealing the honor of someone winning a medal at a major championship, the experience of being able to do a victory lap with your flag and standing on the medal stand and hearing your national anthem is one of the greatest joys in the sport. – Kyle Merber	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
My personal opinion is that Tyson Gay names should be wiped off the books altogether as if Tyson Gay never competed, i'm worried about the image of our sport. – Deena Kastor	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
At least from the middle distance and distance side of things, Americans have done very well at getting on the podium at the world championships and the Olympics Games. – Deena Kastor	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. – Sebastian Coe	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. – Sebastian Coe	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It was a great honor to take part in the design competition, and I wanted to pour all my experience up until then into it. It took several days, of course I didn't take that (logo) as an example, there is absolutely nothing to that talk. – Kenjiro Sano	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I take a lot of time with every design, nurturing them like children. So for this kind of talk to emerge is really unfortunate and kind of sad, if you're creative, you never start from zero and are influenced by a lot of things just through daily life. But it's also a point of pride that as somebody creative, you would never plagiarize. – Kenjiro Sano	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I have always told the guy who swaps them out for me, make sure you get rid of the phone, and what I mean is destroy the phone so that no one can ever, you know, reset it or do something where I feel like the information is available to anybody. – Tom Brady	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Brazil isn't all about lack of planning, overpricing and with no commitment to dates and times, there is a part of Brazil that operates properly. – Mayor Eduardo Paes	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There is no 'Car Wash' here, our projects are on time, the price is set, there are no projects that cost twice what they were at the start. – Pedro Paulo	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

There are those who have been allowed to compete even though they should be provisionally suspended, there are loopholes in the different segments of the sports world where you can be banned by some groups and still compete in others.

– James Ferstle

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It does not happen overnight, while funding for WADA and other national anti-doping organizations has increased, it is still not adequate to deal with the problem.

– James Ferstle

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Don Catlin, one of the pioneers in sports drug testing told me back in the '70s that for each positive drug test, the athlete who was busted was not a triumph for the anti-doping movement, but rather a failure of the system, the system had not convinced those who give in to the temptation that doping was not an attractive option.

– James Ferstle

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The culture needs to favor the clean athletes rather than the win-at-all costs mentality that has the upper hand today, unless we do change the culture, there will continue to be scandals.

– James Ferstle

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Unless you have a precedent, cases that have met the challenge of getting through a legal battle, there is often a reluctance to prosecute a case where the science shows a doping violation but the law may not allow a sanction to be imposed for that offense.

– James Ferstle

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If the cameras had followed me from the mound in 2007 to the hospital with my feeding tube, chemotherapy and radiation, I don't think a lot of kids would have taken up dipping, or at least they might've stopped.

– Curt Schilling

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.

– Sebastian Coe

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.

– Sebastian Coe

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The assumption that we are not sharing this information is wholly false.

– Sebastian Coe

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Athletics is the most fundamental of all sports and the way the world sees athletics influences the way it views all sports, we must be more proactive and even more transparent in our aggressive pursuit of a zero tolerance policy against doping cheats.

– Sergei Bubka

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are very happy with the numbers.

– Donovan Ferretti

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are going to have some turnover on the National Team as we look towards the Rio Olympics and the next Women's World Cup in France, but that's always part of the natural evolution, it will be the job of the players and staff to keep up the world-class level of effort and intensity to meet the high. expectations of this program.

– Jill Ellis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If that means going back 10 years and redistributing medals to the rightful athletes, so be it, it's never too late to do the right thing.

– Shalane Flanagan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We'll hear some bad news but at the end of the day, you would rather hear it than have it happen in the background that no one is going to talk about, the sport will emerge stronger from this.

– Kyle Merber

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

One of the greatest crimes is stealing the honor of someone winning a medal at a major championship, the experience of being able to do a victory lap with your flag and standing on the medal stand and hearing your national anthem is one of the greatest joys in the sport.

– Kyle Merber

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

My personal opinion is that Tyson Gay names should be wiped off the books altogether as if Tyson Gay never competed, i'm worried about the image of our sport.

– Deena Kastor

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

At least from the middle distance and distance side of things, Americans have done very well at getting on the podium at the world championships and the Olympics Games.

– Deena Kastor

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.

– Sebastian Coe

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.

– Sebastian Coe

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It was a great honor to take part in the design competition, and I wanted to pour all my experience up until then into it. It took several days, of course I didn't take that (logo) as an example, there is absolutely nothing to that talk.

– Kenjiro Sano

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I take a lot of time with every design, nurturing them like children. So for this kind of talk to emerge is really unfortunate and kind of sad, if you're creative, you never start from zero and are influenced by a lot of things just through daily life. But it's also a point of pride that as somebody creative, you would never plagiarize.

– Kenjiro Sano

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I have always told the guy who swaps them out for me, make sure you get rid of the phone, and what I mean is destroy the phone so that no one can ever, you know, reset it or do something where I feel like the information is available to anybody.

– Tom Brady

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Brazil isn't all about lack of planning, overpricing and with no commitment to dates and times, there is a part of Brazil that operates properly.

– Mayor Eduardo Paes

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There is no 'Car Wash' here, our projects are on time, the price is set, there are no projects that cost twice what they were at the start.

– Pedro Paulo

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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