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"The Member is absolutely right. I have discussed this with many professional sportspeople and the main reason they give for being virtually forced to take drugs is exactly the reason given by Mr Cohn-Bendit. However, he should know that, without a legal basis to prepare a directive on sport, we cannot act in the way he wishes. The only thing we can do, in this round table with the federations, is ask them to bring good sense into play and to re-establish the prestige of sport.
Given the equal representation of the worlds of sport and government in the World Anti-Doping Agency and given all those who will sit on the board of this agency – all the federations and all the National Olympic Committees – who have all undertaken to implement, in their own area, the decisions taken by the agency, there is real hope. If the agency were to adopt a directive, for example, so that sporting events could be returned to a scale which was humanly possible for sportspeople, this would be a major step forward, but I cannot go further than I am authorised. It will be up to the agency to act in this respect. However, I can tell the honourable Member that the European authorities will work in this direction."@en1
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