RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – The IOC will keep trying to enforce a rule that would prevent former doping cheats from competing in future Olympics.
In an interview with The Associated Press, IOC President Thomas Bach said Monday that he will make a third attempt to push through an OIympic ban on any athlete who has received a serious drug sanction.
“Where there is a serious doping offense, this athlete from my personal view should not have the right to compete in the Olympic Games,” Bach said. “If somebody is taking steroids for weeks and months and has a whole system around him, there is so much cheating energy I do not think such athletes should compete ever again.”
The Court of Arbitration for Sport has twice struck down a rule that would exclude athletes with prior doping cases from the Olympics, including a proposed ban on former Russian dopers from the Rio de Janeiro Games.
CAS has rejected the rule on grounds that it punishes an athlete twice for the same offense.