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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/comment/ioc-president-asserts-zero-tolerance-against-doping-as-top-priority-of-his/">IOC President Asserts Zero Tolerance Against Doping as Top Priority of His Mandate</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted November 12, 2007 at 11:57 AM by Jamal Walker</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Speaking ahead of the World Conference on Doping in Sport that will open in Madrid next week, IOC President Jacques Rogge said that the fight against doping remained at the top of the agenda of the Olympic Movement. “I would like to reiterate the IOC’s total commitment to the fight against doping,” he said to reporters during a teleconference. “The IOC has been a pioneer in establishing, back in 1967, the IOC Medical Commission and in rallying International Federations (IFs), National Olympic Committees (NOCs) and governments to the cause. We created WADA in 1999, after the Festina case during the Tour de France clearly indicated that more needed to be done. Since then, the IOC has been wholeheartedly supporting WADA and will continue to do so in the future”. “The IOC itself has adopted a zero-tolerance…<a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/comment/ioc-president-asserts-zero-tolerance-against-doping-as-top-priority-of-his/">(<a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/comment/ioc-president-asserts-zero-tolerance-against-doping-as-top-priority-of-his/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/comment/ioc-president-asserts-zero-tolerance-against-doping-as-top-priority-of-his/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/comment/ioc-president-asserts-zero-tolerance-against-doping-as-top-priority-of-his/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.summerolympian.com/olympics/archive/category/doping/">Doping</a><br /><br /> </P>