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Bach: IOC to set up $10m anti-doping fund
IOC president Thomas Bach says the Olympic body is putting up $10 million to develop new anti-doping tests and methods. Bach says the International Olympic Committee is also asking governments to contribute the same amount to the anti-doping fight.
Updated on: Dec 14, 2013, 22:15:57 IST
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IOC president Thomas Bach says the Olympic body is putting up $10 million to develop new anti-doping tests and methods.
Bach says the International Olympic Committee is also asking governments to contribute the same amount to the anti-doping fight.
The new president says the IOC is also setting up a $10-million fund to protect athletes from "any kind of manipulation or related corruption."
The IOC will sign an agreement with Interpol in early 2014 and set up a monitoring system to guard against illegal and irregular betting in the Olympics.
The decisions were announced Saturday following a four-day "brainstorming session" of the IOC executive board in the Swiss resort of Montreux.
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