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International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch tried to sweep
doping under the carpet to protect IOC interests. "Samaranch wasn't interested in the
issue" "There was no money available for interested in using the Olympic
leverage against the international federations to make them do their job.

samaranch as IOC chief in 1980, is credited with turning the then lagging fortunes
of the Olympic movement around and creating a hugely popular and commercially
successful products.

He also greatly enhanced the political clout of the IOC worldwide.The Spaniard's
 mandate ended in 2001, and he was succeeded by Jacques Rogge  has
 advocated a zero-tolerance policy on drugs.

Pound said were it not for the 1998 Festina team cycling scandal at the Tour de
France where officials found a carload of performance-enhancing drugs and
the police raided team hotels to find more drugs, things would not have changed.

Doping has since become an even bigger problem in world sport, again seriously
damaging the image of cycling during the Tour de France in 2006 and 2007.

Pound said the Festina scandal essentially led to the creation of WADA  as the
credibility of the IOC and the international federations had been greatly undermined.
pound  stepping down at the end of this year or IOC president in 2001 but lost out to
Rogge.