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Saturday, October 31, 2009
LOS ANGELES: Andre Agassi’s admission he used a banned drug in 1997 should serve as a wake-up call to the ATP that they need to act now before they are shamed into it as a result of a scandal, says Dick Pound.
“It has got to the point where either these sports organisations enforce the rules or someone like congress is going to say ‘we gave you a chance to manage your affairs properly and now we are going to take it over,’” said Pound, the former president of the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Mary Joe Fernandez, captain of the American Fed Cup tennis team, said she was stunned to hear of Agassi’s failed drug test.
“A bit of a shock more than anything else,” Fernandez said. “You know obviously I was disappointed to hear something like that but you know it takes a lot of guts and courage to come out and say something that you know nobody would have really known about.”
The ATP issued a statement on Wednesday saying that an independent panel makes the final decision on a doping violations.
Pound, a Aformer world class swimmer who competed for Canada in the 1960 Summer Olympics, said sports organisations need to realise that their superstars serve as role models for young athletes.
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