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it is causing to the bank. What does it take for us to enjoy | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
watching sport? It is more than just being impressed by athletic | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
ability. It has to be our belief, our knowledge that competitors are | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
not cheating. That the outcome of the match has not been fixed. That | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
they are not taking illegal, performance-enhancing drugs. | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
Without that certainty that the competition is there we might as | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
well all go home. At the home of the IOC and a range of other | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
sporting bodies I have come to talk to a man that embodies the fight | :02:50. | :02:58. | |
for fairness. John Fahey, the head of the World Anti-Doping Agency. | :02:58. | :03:08. | |
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Can he reassure us that it is a Welcome to HARDtalk. Let me take | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
you back to something that you said just after he became President of | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
the World Anti-Doping Agency. You said that the fight against drugs | :03:32. | :03:41. | |
is more than likely never going to be one, do you stand by that? | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
As each year goes past in that race that we get closer to the finishing | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
line but we are never going to make it. The simple fact is that human | :03:51. | :03:59. | |
nature gets in the road. Fortune, fame that might flow from any app - | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
- any athlete is always likely to outweigh other considerations. | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
There will always be those who attempt to cheat and as a result of | :04:11. | :04:18. | |
that there will always be the need for an organisation to try to stamp | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
out the problem. What makes you think that you are getting closer | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
to cleaning up sport? We are far more intelligent with the way we | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
deal with it. In the early days we were focused on as many Tests as | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
possible. We have recognised that it is about quality and not | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
quantity. We need to target those we are taking samples off. We need | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
to incorporate with law enforcement agencies and share information with | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
them. We do so with some knowledge and that makes us more effective | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
and in my view, it makes us, brings us closer to the finishing line | :05:00. | :05:09. | |
that I know we will never get to. The next time you will be in the | :05:10. | :05:18. | |
news is next month in a court fight with the national Olympics | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
Association, the British Olympic Association because you are | :05:21. | :05:31. | |
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challenging the lifelong ban on drug... The code allows us to | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
assess and make a decision on the compliance of the signatories. That | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
particular decision was made by the Foundation board in November of | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
last year. In the lead-up to that matter are being discussed by the | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
board there was initially a decision by the Court of | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
Arbitration of sport in respect to the rule of the International | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
Olympic Committee. Their rule stated that they have the right to | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
prevent anybody attending an Olympics if that person had a | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
suspension of six months or more. In the next Olympics they were | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
disqualified from attending. The court through that out and said it | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
is an additional sanction. As a result of that week asked the | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
British Olympic Association to examine their by-law which said | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
that you cannot be selected in to a team that will allow you to attend | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
the Olympics with a six-month suspension for the rest of your | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
life. We were told ultimately in a very different sort of way through | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
speeches and media statements that the British Olympic Association was | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
going to stand by the by-law. The foundation would have to consider | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
whether or not they were compliant with the rules and the decision was | :06:55. | :07:03. | |
quite clear on legal advice. A No 1 was pushing you to take these. | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
There are not British athletes queuing up to challenge this in | :07:05. | :07:13. | |
court. Every two years we have to give a report to our stakeholders | :07:13. | :07:23. | |
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on the compliance of our signature use. -- our signatories. They were | :07:23. | :07:33. | |
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non-compliant on the rules, the BOA. It looks from the outside as if it | :07:34. | :07:41. | |
is the anti-doping agency being soft on drugs cheats. This quote | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
from a gold winning British decathlete. He said he would like | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
to see you on the side of people who do not cheat rather than | :07:49. | :07:56. | |
minimum sentences for people who do. Why didn't he say that when we | :07:56. | :08:03. | |
reviewed the code in 2007? They had that opportunity and they can get | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
it again now because we are undertaking a further review that | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
was signalled long before this review came up that would allow us | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
to adopt whatever the stakeholders the signatories decide... For what | :08:16. | :08:24. | |
is your personal view? It does not matter. It does. I am the President | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
of an organisation that is the custodian of a coroner. That code | :08:30. | :08:40. | |
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currently serves sanctions for two years. Indeed and I can see why you | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
want people to abide by that code. I am more than interested in what | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
comes out of the process that has now started. We will, over the next | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
18 months or so, seek some missions, look out submissions from all of | :08:58. | :09:05. | |
our signatories. We will go through a process of consultation and I | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
will be interested to see what the penalty is, the sanction that the | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
sporting movement, the governments of the world believe is appropriate | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
and I will support what that outcome might be. I understand and | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
respect that but I am asking what you personally think given that you | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
wonder figurehead in the fight against drugs cheats. It is | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
irrelevant what I personally think. Not as far as an awful lot of | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
people think. I was the head of a government in the state of New | :09:37. | :09:45. | |
South Wales and I had no right to way personal abuse. The code has | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
been adopted by our signatories, our board members and that contains | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
the sanction of two years until that changes. If there is a wish to | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
change that it will get my support. I understand that you are bound by | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
the rules but your approach sounds cautious, bureaucratic rather than | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
you saying, it troubles me about drugs cheats might think they could | :10:09. | :10:17. | |
get away with a two-year ban. You are saying, well, whatever the | :10:17. | :10:26. | |
people who pay my wages decide I will carry up their balls. For the | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
-- for starters I do not get wages. Cheats in sport get away with it | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
and that troubles me. But the sanction is another issue. That | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
sanction is held, the sporting world has been held in good stead | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
for a number of years. If I can go to the British Olympic | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
Association's by-law, three people in 20 years had been caught by the | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
by-law. 28 others were exonerated on appeal. I wonder, I ask how | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
effective that might have been. I don't mind. If they want to have a | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
tough law, we are saying that the court has determined it is an | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
additional sanction and therefore we take no other view, took no | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
other view other than to say that your rules do not comply with the | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
anti-doping code that you are a signatory to us. Let me put it | :11:24. | :11:34. | |
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another way. This stems from a US sprinter challenging competing at | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
the Olympics after he was suspended for drugs offences. What will it | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
make you feel like watching him compete in London? He has served | :11:49. | :11:56. | |
his time and the rules say that he can now compete next time. You feel | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
fine about him competing? If he is selected. I have no difficulties of | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
him competing on the basis that he has served a sanction, he was found | :12:07. | :12:17. | |
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to have a prohibited substance. He has a ride to get on with his life. | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
If that involves representing the United States in London I have no | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
difficulty with that. Do you have specific concerns about the London | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
Olympics? Nothing specific. There are specific sports that concern | :12:32. | :12:40. | |
you? No, no. I think it is fair to say they are right sheets in all | :12:40. | :12:50. | |
sports. If you look at where we are out in 2012 as opposed to 2004, | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
2008, there is a far more effective anti-doping programme in place now, | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
far more intelligent approach in catching cheats and I have little | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
doubt that those responsible for the programme, the IOC, will put | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
together a comprehensive programme that will deal with not only the | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
lead-up to the Olympics, the weeks and the months leading up, the out | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
of competition training, testing and samples and also during the | :13:20. | :13:29. | |
Games, random testing and testing of the Met all events. What do you | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
feel when you hear about cases such as Alberto Contador, the Tour de | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
France winner who was hoping to compete at the Olympics and will | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
not be able to because it has been found that yes, he did have the | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
banned substance clenbuterol. He is going to serve eight two-year ban. | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
Do you think, fantastic, we caught another one or do you think I wish | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
cycling were cleaner than it were? My reaction is to say, this is a | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
good day for all the clean athletes of the world. A court has made a | :14:07. | :14:15. | |
decision. A high-profile athlete is a cheat. It reassures the clean | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
athletes, cyclists that the unfair advantage that may come from cheats | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
is being eliminated, may be slowly but being eliminated. Equally you | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
could see that the culture of drugs is rife. How many times have we | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
been told that that's it, and line in the sand has been drawn, | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
particularly for Cycling? One operation after another, police | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
investigations, yet it comes back. What I would say about cycling is | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
this. It would seem to me that cycling was in denial about a | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
problem not so long ago. I think they have moved past that. There is | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
little doubt from what I have seen, from the observations that time | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
make that they have recognised the problem they had and they have done | :15:05. | :15:13. | |
something about it. For example, the athlete biological passport | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
programme effectively means the top 800 cyclists in the world are | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
constantly giving blood for that particular programme to take effect. | :15:23. | :15:32. | |
That puts all of the cyclists on notice common they can get and | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
knock on the door at any time and something could lead to a sanction | :15:37. | :15:45. | |
and it has occurred. That is an investment by cycling as a sport | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
that I can only commend. What I believe is the case with cycling is | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
that yes, they had big problems and would acknowledge that. They have | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
less problems today but it is not a clean sport in the way any other | :15:59. | :16:07. | |
sport is. Alberto Contador, the man who has been cleared, is supported | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
by the Spanish Cycling Federation. How can you be confident when one | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
of the national federations on which she you rely it is fighting | :16:16. | :16:25. | |
I regret the fact that any federation it might take the side | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
of somebody who has been found to have been committed to a drug | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
offence. He has been found to have committed an offence. | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
Doesn't that totally undercut your work? | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
I can understand where Patriot doesn't sometimes overtakes common | :16:46. | :16:53. | |
sense. -- patriotism. I say that none of us should be supportive of | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
anybody who is a cheat. Weedy you think that Lance | :16:59. | :17:06. | |
Armstrong's -- y you think that Lance Armstrong's investigation has | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
been closed? Wedd is that leave your investigations. | :17:10. | :17:17. | |
The week that no investigation into a home. The United States anti- | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
doping agency has had a role and we have asked that the information | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
that has been obtained which relates to doping by this law | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
enforcement agency by this -- be passed over. | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
So you say that your investigations are now beginning into Lance | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
Armstrong? No. I am saying that there may well | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
be information collected that may be of interest. The allegation was | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
alleged fraud and a criminal investigation. There has been an | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
investigation and a decision taken. It surprised me that the | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
investigation stopped as abruptly as it did. All indications were | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
that further indications -- and these would be occurring this way. | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
That is simply stopped. What disappoints me is that any | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
cheat that get away with it. Was that going to lead to an | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
outcome? I have no idea. That had a fair bit to run before any of us | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
has certainty. Why then do you think it is | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
important that the United States anti-doping agency pursues Lance | :18:29. | :18:38. | |
Armstrong? The American agency will progress | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
of that matter, of the events allows them to and it may not be | :18:43. | :18:51. | |
against Lance Armstrong but many of the others. -- evidence. I do not | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
know. If they get the information, they can make that decision but it | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
is an anti- doping investigation or and anti-doping procedure that they | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
will pursue, not a criminal procedure which has now been | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
stopped. I just wonder if one of the | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
indications is not specifically to do with him or a much broader | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
investigation. You said you are trying to move the focus away from | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
testing towards more intelligence led operations in combination with | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
police. Here, the American authorities have spent a huge | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
amount of time and money investigating one man it to come up | :19:31. | :19:38. | |
with nothing. It could be the lesson that has drawn from a lot of | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
law enforcement agencies around the world that they want to co-operate | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
that it is simply not worth the bother. | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
I think what has occurred here is that they have pursued the alleged | :19:48. | :19:56. | |
fraud. In the course of investigations there, they have | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
entered into the world of doping and in that context, information | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
has no doubt been collected by them which can be of some value and if | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
we see it, if the anti-doping Agency sees it, then they can make | :20:08. | :20:15. | |
those decisions. One can say that you should not let that evidence | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
stay on some shelves somewhere. It may be very relevant to current | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
athletes, not necessarily Lance Armstrong, who has announced his | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
retirement. Let us see it being examined for the purposes of | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
fighting against doping in bought it at Cannes, it will be a good | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
thing. What convinces you that law | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
enforcement agencies around the world will want to co-operate with | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
you? There are countries that pass laws | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
giving that right. There are an awful lot of countries | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
that hadn't. We have developed a protocol for | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
the association and co-operation between law enforcement agencies | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
and anti-doping organisations. There are a lot of people who think | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
that the focus on recreational drugs against performance enhancing | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
drugs needs to be changed and that you are -- your sanctions are | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
disproportionately harsh to those at lead to a court snorting cocaine | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
or smoking cannabis, because it is not about becoming a better sports | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
person. Let me say first leak, I dislike | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
intensely the word recreation when it comes to talking about drugs. | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
Those roads are in almost every country I know of in the world | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
illegal. They are against a criminal code. But I also recognise | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
that they are used on a widespread basis amongst many, particularly | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
young, people including at least. I take you back to the rationale | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
behind the anti-doping code that we have got. The three Tests are, | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
firstly, is the substance a performance enhancing substance? It | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
is an easy one and that is where the focus tense up to life. But | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
they are two other arms to it. Is the use of that broke against the | :22:13. | :22:20. | |
spirit of sport? Cannabis surely is against the spirit of sport. The | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
third one is, is it a potential danger to the health of the afraid. | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
But the same sort of sanction for somebody smoking a joint Bree weeks | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
before a competition as somebody who has been using performance- | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
enhancing drugs. Most of those drugs are only a | :22:36. | :22:44. | |
legal or banned if they occur in competition. -- illegal. For | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
example, in competition with football codes, the day of the | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
match, for university matches, three weeks before will not lead to | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
a sanction and that is clearly spelled out. | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
So you would agree with your predecessor who said about a change | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
in the balance between the sanctions for recreational and | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
performance-enhancing drugs when he said, this is not a free pass for | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
athletes but we have to recognise that somebody having a joint three | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
weeks before a competition is not doping in the sense of performance | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
enhancing. That is recognised in the way it is | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
dealt with now. Nobody is going to be sanctioned for having a joint | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
three weeks before a game of football or a race in any sport. It | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
is the date of the sport, as I pointed out to you, in competition. | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
Let me take you back to the start. I asked you whether you thought | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
that you were winning it end you said, it is never going to be one | :23:43. | :23:50. | |
but it is a fight we are making progress on. Back in 2010, you said | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
there was ample evidence to suggest there is almost as much money, if | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
not more money, coming out of performance-enhancing drugs as | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
there is out of the illegal drug trade throughout the world. That | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
does not suggest that you are winning. | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
Which is why we work as strongly and closely as we do with the | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
government of the world and 193 of those governments are in fact | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
signatories to our code. Clearly, we need the law enforcement | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
agencies in all of those countries to play their part. We need to | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
ensure that as and when information is obtained and Interpol workers on | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
that, that Interpol shares have that information with the police | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
forces and that members of Interpol take action. All of us want to cut | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
off the supply at force rather than see it trickled through where it | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
actually allows and admit to succumb to the temptation of | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
potential fortune and fame through the support of performance- | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
enhancing drugs. How dangerous do you think it is | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
that if global sport does not clean up further bad at a certain point | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
that we will all just say, there is no point in fighting? | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
Debt is the ultimate meltdown. If the integrity diminishes, if you | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
lose faith in the contest, and believe that all of those qualities | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
that's what brings with it, but most of us were imbued with has | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
small children, then the fall of that disappears, but is exactly the | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
outcome. People are simply won't turn up because they are not | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
convinced any longer that it is true sport. That in itself, for all | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
the good things that sport does in the world, is in my view at | :25:40. | :25:47. | |
motivating factor for all but hard work that is put into fighting the | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
problem, arresting its development we have the weekend. I believe we | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
are making giant strides. I believe we have come a long way. We do have | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
along way to go but there are many of us around the world who are very | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
committed to not giving up in any shape or form. | :26:06. | :26:16. | |
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John Fahey, thank you very much for In recent days, we may have heard a | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
battle about mild air and cold air trying to get across from the | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
continent and a battle overhead. The battle continues over Thursday. | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
There is the over all set up here. Mild air is trying to push in. The | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
problem is, call there will not go away. We have an ample warning for | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
ice from the Met Office. -- called Air will not go away. We notice it | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
is relatively milder across the northern parts of Scotland and | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
towards Northern Ireland, but where the two air masses meet, we have | :27:12. | :27:19. | |
rain falling into cold air across the North. A real problem. That is | :27:19. | :27:25. | |
why there is an ample warning. We are still hanging on to a yellow | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
warning for the southern parts of Scotland. For the rest of Scotland | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
and Northern Ireland it is a great start. Relatively mild. Across the | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
rest of England and Wales, it stays cold. No doubt about it. There is a | :27:40. | :27:50. | |
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masterly -- actually start to Thursday. -- at chilly start. There | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
will be less when for the south- eastern quarter. The cold is not as | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
penetrating as was the case on Wednesday. This frontal zone will | :28:01. | :28:10. | |
be a long real problem. It could be disruptive iced. Come the afternoon | :28:10. | :28:16. | |
as it keeps running into this cold pool of air, we may well see a | :28:16. | :28:22. | |
conversion of rain into snow across part of Yorkshire. Further north, | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
it rise up and relatively speaking it is mild. We have had this battle | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
and just when you thought that front was going to push all the | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
mild air across the British Isles, it does not quite manage it, simply | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
because we cannot -- we keep getting this cold air around the | :28:37. | :28:42. | |
high pressure. Milder air is lapping into these northern and | :28:42. | :28:47. | |
western parts. The boundary between the two becomes where we see this | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
area of snow are developing which moves across Yorkshire and into the | :28:51. | :28:54. |