SHAMING THE TOUR

The astonishing advocacy of performance-enhancing drugs in sport by Juan
Antonio Samaranch, the International Olympics Committee president,
highlights his successful campaign earlier this year to have cannabis added
to the list of drugs prohibited for Olympic athletes. He now excepts only
those "performance-enhancing drugs that may cause permanent harm to the
athlete". As cannabis is neither performance-enhancing nor harmful to the
individual user, just what exactly was the relevance of that ban?

GERARD MULHOLLAND
CHEVILLY-LARUE, FRANCE