Australian swimming champ feels anti-doping system 'failed'

  • 3 months ago
Zac Stubblety-Cook was disappointed with the recent news surrounding the doping scandal.
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00:00I mean I absolutely believe in clean sport and I hope that this is a clean
00:04Games. It's obviously disappointing to hear that news and hear about the pre
00:10Tokyo 23 athletes testing positive some multiple times and for me racing someone
00:17that was one of those athletes or finding out he was one of those athletes
00:21was disappointing. I think it's less about what country they came from and
00:26more about the system and how the system ultimately like it feels like
00:30it's failed and that's the truth I think like obviously I can have all the
00:37opinions but I'm now focused on like what I can control going into these
00:41games and being a clean athlete and looking to that and hoping that my
00:45competitors are doing the same. I mean everyone probably knows is aware of Rule
00:4850 here and the repercussions that happen with that I think like potentially we
00:54could see protests in other events as well. Personally I think I'd make a
00:59decision probably on the day but you know at the end of the day I'm a clean
01:03athlete and I'm trying to abide by those rules and I just hope my competitors do
01:07the same.

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