- I do not understand why such a man – rich in this age, played in something like that. For me it’s just plain wrong. It’s just like I’m now caught on the use of illicit means, even though I am at the end of his career. I can not understand the motives Diack – Ziolkowski said.
The 82-year-old Diack from 1999 to August this year chaired by the IAAF. I recently found himself in the crosshairs of the French prosecutor’s office, which suspected him of corruption and money laundering. Senegalese was to receive over a million euros in 2011 to cover up the positive results of doping tests Russian athletes.
– In my opinion cheering on such a scale not only for the Russian athletes. Under the magnifying glass should be taken of all countries of the former Soviet Union as well as China and Kenya. The problem is much bigger than the moment may seem to us – said Ziolkowski.
The Olympic champion from Sydney believes that sport by doping loses its meaning. – Why watch the competition if you do not know who is clean and does an athlete who wins a medal will not have him for a moment pay? Doping is cheating, and as I was in the IAAF Athletes’ Commission signaled a problem. We presented a number of options, but this was met with acceptance. It is a battle with the windmills and do not believe that anything has changed – he added.
Szymon Ziolkowski, three-time World Championships medalist, also noted that later there is a problem with enforcing financial rewards. – But every coin has its value. But only one who we wywalczymy directly in competition. If the disqualification occurs a few months later, and this is the most common, is “pure” people do not get a financial bonus. It’s gone. This issue also signaled but the IAAF told us that we need the courts to enforce a refund directly from athletes caught for doping who have previously received the appropriate checks. This is absurd – Ziolkowski said.
That’s why AZS Poznan AXIS believes that the IAAF should in such cases impose a particular federation. And if that does not want to cover, then suspend it. – But any association depend on that to be represented in the international arena. Any such suspension would therefore be very severe. The fight against doping has no ready-made solutions. They must, however, be drastic, otherwise we will never eliminate – he stressed.
Also for the players themselves, the penalties are – in his opinion – too mild. – There should be many times higher. And for doping at the Olympics, should be limited to freedom. Such a player yet committed fraud to the state. He prepared himself for the taxpayers’ money for the event. It is therefore evident stealing funds from the budget. Already I’m not talking about what relief the country, which had proudly represent – he added.
Szymon Ziolkowski also mentioned the problems which antydopingowi controllers have to struggle in countries such as China or Kenya. – In China, they are not able to conclude whether the competitor that comes to investigate is certainly that for which it claims to be. The citizens of this country for us are almost identical. The same is true of Africa. Getting there to the village, where the athlete is at any given time to stay, bordering already a miracle – he said.
Investigation Commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has recommended on Monday the IAAF immediate exclusion of Russia from all structures of the organization.
It also requested that the Russian anti-doping laboratory had lost official licensed to conduct anti-doping tests. One of the reasons – as said in a statement – there are confirmed cases of “direct intervention” by the Russian authorities in the course of the research process.
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