Life-time ban for using banned substances
Sandasen Marasinghe, Irangika Range and Disna
Mudalige
The government will ban sportsmen who are found using banned
substances for life, Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage told
Parliament yesterday.
Making the winding up speech of the debate on the votes of the Sports
Ministry during the third reading stage debate on the budget proposals,
the minister said that over the past ten months, the ministry had taken
crucial steps to avoid the downfall of discipline in sports. "I would
like to remind the House that 65 percent of the punishments thus far
given by the Sports Ministry with regard to doping were given during my
tenure as the Sports Minister.
All sportspersons of this country are well aware that the Institute
of Sports Medicine which is under the Sports Ministry was not acting
with responsibility during the past.
We wanted to create trust among the sportspersons of this country
with regard to the Institute of Sports Medicine.
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