World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) president Sir Craig Reedie doesn't
believe banning countries involved in persistent doping is the right
course of action.
Reedie believes this approach would damage athletics and doesn't consider it to be an option.
He told BBC World Service: "We're not entitled to do it, we don't have these powers."
"I would hope increased efforts, whether it's research
or education, in testing athletes at the right time will help us catch
cheats, and that people will begin to realise that cheating in sport
doesn't make any sense."
The IAAF confirmed recently that 28 athletes who
competed at the 2005 and 2007 World Championships had been provisionally
suspended after returning "adverse findings"
from retested samples.
Reedie, a former president of the British Olympic Association,
said the re-testing was "very significant" and would allow samples to be
re-examined "in the light of better testing techniques".
"If they are able to detect somebody who cheated all those years ago, the IAAF says it will reallocate medals," he added.
"That's good news for clean athletes and we are in the business of protecting clean athletes.
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