Critics continue to charge the IOC with turning a blind eye to drug use if the doping involves the most popular athletes or events. Frank Shorter is one of them. Shorter was the United States' Marathon Gold Medalist in 1972 and now heads the first ever U.S. anti-doping agency. He hopes that by the time of the Salt Lake City games begin in two years, his agency will be completely independent of the IOC with the sole authority to administer drug tests and punish offender. Still, the fact that so many drug cheats have been exposed in Australia is hardly cause for celebration.
Critics say it only proves how widespread and sophisticated drug use has become.
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