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"Madam President, I shall try to extract a question from a statement, and shall say that I agree with the honourable Member that doping is a scourge.
I do not agree, however, with two points that he makes. Firstly, he suggests that there is a clear difference between amateur sport and professional sport. Our studies have, unfortunately, shown that amateur sport has also been affected by the phenomenon. We must therefore fight doping among not only professional athletes, but also amateur athletes, and we must focus on public health, given that doping is becoming a genuine public health problem.
The second point made by the honourable Member with which I take issue is the idea that, despite all the measures in place, not only has the situation failed to improve, it has in fact worsened. The answer is very simple: as long as we deny that doping takes place and that there is a need to take action to control it, the offenders will not be worried. Now that everyone acknowledges that doping takes place everywhere and now that we have put controls in place in conjunction with the International Olympic Committee and WADA, the World Anti-doping Agency, we are, of course, catching people who take drugs and that is a good thing. The more people we catch, the fewer people there will be who will risk taking drugs and the more we will be sending out the positive message that ‘you cannot get away with doping’ and that an extremely fierce battle is now being organised against this scourge that is killing sport."@en1
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