GSD Undeterred by Shocking Doping Report -- ATRadio

(ATR)Foundation for Global Sports Development executive Steven Ungerleider tells clean athletes don't be tempted to dope.

"Don't get caught up in thinking you have to dope to win," Ungerleider says in the latest edition of ATRadio.

On Monday, the World Anti Doping Agency Independent Commission delivered its explosive report that detailed systemic doping cover-ups in Russian athletics.

Ungerleider, who also served on the WADA education and ethics committee, spoke with ATRand saidthe scandal is detrimental to the reputation of the Olympic family.

He added, "It's bad for sport, it's bad for the culture of public health, and it's bad for our next generation.

"At the Foundation for Global Sports Development, we try to instill an ethic of competing clean, so we can pass that along to the next generation."

Ungerleider published a book in 2001 titled "Faust's Gold," which explores the infamous East German doping program.

Afterhis time spent researching East Germany,Ungerleider toldATR he was not surprised by the findings in the WADA Independent Commission's report."During that period I was told, and saw documentation, that East Germany was not really alone.

"Russia and other countries were involved in doping protocols."

Ungerleider said that he thinks some of the Russian sports figures named in WADA's report stole pages from the East German doping handbook, adding, "It doesn't really shock me."

Click below to hear ATR's full interview with Ungerleider.

Written and produced byNicole Bennett

Podcast photo: GSD

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