Former swimming star Roland Schoeman is advising a rebel movement that wants to stage an Olympic-styled games allowing athletes to use performance-enhancing substances, but he says he himself will continue playing by the anti-doping rules.
, lists Schoeman as one of its athletics advisory commission members on its website.
Schoeman won three Olympic medals at Athens 2004 as well as six world championship gongs before serving a doping ban a few years ago, although he insisted it was the result of a contaminated product. At the time he said had never knowingly taken performance-enhancing substances and he never would. “I have been asked by Enhanced Games to advise them, provide current knowledge, critical thinking and analysis to assist the decision-makers who represent the movement,” Schoeman told TimesLIVE in written responses to emailed questions.
“This is based on my experiences as an elite athlete and my experiences with Fina [swimming’s world governing body] and Wada [the World Anti-Doping Agency] during my adverse analytical finding hearings. “I have not changed my outlook with respect to performance-enhancing substances when it comes to the Wada, IOC [the International Olympic Committee], Fina, IAAF [world athletics' governing body] … [and such] organisations.
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