The president of the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday addressed problems with global antidoping efforts, which are led by officials from his own organization. Tacitly acknowledging that the current structure is rife with conflicts, he ordered a complete rethinking of it.
“We want to make the antidoping system independent from sports organizations,” Thomas Bach, president of the I.O.C., said at a summit of global sports officials in Switzerland. “The antidoping system has some deficiencies.”
A New York Times investigation this month found that the World Anti-Doping Agency, the global watchdog for sports doping, was hampered by politics and possible conflicts of interest.