Arne Ljungqvist
Arne Ljungqvist
Arne Ljungqvistis a Swedish medical researcher, sports personality and retired high jumper. Ljungqvist is a member of the International Olympic Committee, chairman of IOC's Medical Commission, and vice chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency...
avoid certain conducting follow hunt image number reason sort wish witch
We wish to avoid the image of conducting some sort of witch hunt here, but we have reason to follow up a certain number of cases.
avoid cause element serious
For us to put in a new element would cause serious problems. We should avoid that.
avoid blood cases certain follow image number reason
We want to avoid any kind of image of a witch-hunt, but we have reason ... to follow up a certain number of cases by blood analysis.
information raid
We had such information that a raid was a necessity.
attempts pick science
Attempts are out there to pick up what science is giving.
challenge ready
We are very much aware...We are pre pared. We are ready to take the challenge on board, should it occur.
evidence raid
We have such evidence that this raid was necessary.
action asked conduct decided evening informed italian police testing
We never asked the Italian police to take action. We informed them that we would conduct testing on the evening of the 18th and they decided to take action at the same time.
tested
The athletes, to my knowledge, have been tested before they left.
access believe cannot deep guarantee outside people properly situation stored subjected
I believe they may well, if they have been properly stored ? without access to outside people so they cannot be tampered with. Also in a refrigerator or deep frozen, ... If not in such a situation ? there's no guarantee they have not been subjected to undue temperatures.
code forward happy loyalty move percent sake sort
We, like many other federations, were not 100 percent happy with the code, but for the sake of harmonization and loyalty and to move the code forward we sort of compromised, all of us.
attempted forbidden positive possession substances violation violations
It's just as much a violation to be in possession of forbidden doping substances or to have attempted to use them or distributed them to others. All of those are doping violations of the same significance as a positive test.
area concern created quite
That he was in the same area (as the athletes) created quite some concern for us.
adopted code congress including last
We adopted the WADA code two years ago at our last congress including the two years' ban,