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"Mr President, the Commission replied to Mr Staes' written question last January, relating to the taking of measures against doping, that it had no plans to harmonise this particular sector of sport. Doping, however, has become a scourge the world over. Anyone watching the Olympic Games in Athens understood that in the best possible way. Major records and distinctions are no longer the objective of the athletes alone, but also of a global industry which has grown up around sport. The financial interests of the huge multinationals, the companies which sponsor professional sport, are only served when the performance of the athletes is outstanding. As a result, a social model is developing, whereby doping is also spreading to amateur athletes, especially young athletes. It is unacceptable for gymnasia, for example, to supply doping substances which are directly harmful to health. That is why we maintain that efforts must continue to wipe out the organisations which supply banned substances to athletes, so that we too do not end up like the USA, where laboratories are 'set up' to produce false champions. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the direction in which we need to move."@en1
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