The head of research at the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI), Sandro Donati (photo), recounts his personal story about twenty years of fighting against doping in Italian and international sport. An unbelievable story which nevertheless is true.

The Sydney 2000 Olympic Games represent a significant turning point in the fight for fair and equitable competition. Drug cheats are now finding fewer and fewer places to hide.

Doping is the negation of the very essence of sport. The fight against doping is a question of survival of the Olympic movement and international top sport in general.

The international fight against doping, as headed by the IOC and the big federations, is at best hypocritical and at worst disastrous. Education and personal responsability must be a new key word in a national doping policy.