June 08, 2012 – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) recently butted heads with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over its ruling against the British Olympic Committee’s (BOA) attempt to ban sanctioned athletes from the Games even if they had served their time. The CAS said this in effect was a double sanction and not enforceable.

But the IOC got a boost from WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) when it introduced revisions to the world anti-doping code, scheduled for 2015, that will prevent doping cheats from competing at the Olympics following the end of their suspension.

“We’re having some difficulties with the CAS,” admitted Norwegian Gerhard Heiberg, an IOC executive board member who headed up the organising committee for the Lillehammer Winter Olympics in 1994 in an AFP report. “We wanted to have a statement saying that anybody caught in a doping offence should be left out of the Olympic Games in the future. We lost that battle in the CAS. But we are coming back and we want zero tolerance for doping, corruption and illegal betting.

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