Arne Ljungqvist Quotations

We adopted the WADA code two years ago at our last congress including the two years' ban,

We never asked the Italian police to take action. We informed them that we would conduct testing on the evening of the 18th and they decided to take action at the same time.

We, like many other federations, were not 100 percent happy with the code, but for the sake of harmonization and loyalty and to move the code forward we sort of compromised, all of us.

Attempts are out there to pick up what science is giving.

I believe they may well, if they have been properly stored ? without access to outside people so they cannot be tampered with. Also in a refrigerator or deep frozen, ... If not in such a situation ? there's no guarantee they have not been subjected to undue temperatures.

A positive or negative dope test is not the full story. This goes on until we have a final conclusion with all elements.

A positive doping test does not constitute the sole basis for a doping violation. There are other types of anti-doping rule violations, such as the mere possession of doping substances. We don't know yet whether these athletes or coaches have been in possession. That is for the Italian authorities to inform us about.

We have such evidence that this raid was necessary.

That he was in the same area (as the athletes) created quite some concern for us.

The athletes, to my knowledge, have been tested before they left.