Lamine Diack Quotes
b. 1933
Lamine Diack (born 7 June 1933 – 3 December 2021) was a Senegalese businessman, sports administrator, and athlete.
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You cannot leave any doubt about our results. If we come to a situation where people are saying 'what they are doing is not true', what then? So we have to clean.
It's a difficult crisis but we will put it behind us by cleaning all this.
It's our job to clean all this and take all the measures we have to take.
It's a crisis, absolutely. We have to put this behind us but we will arrive to make it.
I'm convinced I know my department. I know how they work very, very hard about the fight against doping, and I didn't see any reason to make a cover-up of a doping case.
I cannot accept that somebody came and said in Russia it's 99% cheating. It's not true
We face a difficult situation in Russia... we have to clean up what is going on in Russia now.
OK, in Russia there are some cheaters and if it's demonstrated that cheating is organised we have to take action, not only on the athletes, but on the leaders.
I understand after this kind of crisis people are saying 'OK, what are they doing, is it right or not?', but I think we have to be absolutely clear that our athletes are 90% to 95% clean.