Dear IOC Board Member,

As a competitor, supporter and fan of international ski racing, I am saddened and outraged over the recent events at the Salt lake City Olympics.

I applaud the efforts of the doping lab which ultimately caught Johann Muehlegg, Larissa Lazutina and Olga Danilova for using a performance enhancing substance. However, there is something terribly wrong with the IOC policy when these three athletes are only stripped of the most recent medal they won. In order for anti-doping rules to be a real deterrent, a single positive doping test should result in the following:

1) The athlete is automatically disqualified from the entire Olympic games.

2) All of the athlete's results from the Olympics in question are voided.

3)The athlete is stripped of all medals won during that entire Olympics.

4) The athlete is barred from competing in any future Olympic competitions.

This policy should also affect all coaches, trainers and program directors knowingly involved in any doping cases.

The International Olympic Committee and the international governing bodies need to create an environment where doping is so strongly punished that no one is willing to risk lifetime expulsion from the Olympic movement.

We also request that the IOC do everything within its power to restore the public's faith in the Olympic movement by stripping Muehlegg, Lazutina and Danilova of the medals they won in Salt Lake City prior to their positive drug tests. Doping experts concluded that these three athletes must have used NESP for many weeks in order for it to have the desired effect, and the athletes were benefiting from illegal performance enhancers throughout the entire games. The clean athletes at the Salt Lake City Olympics should be given the medals they deserve!

Sincerely,

Everyone at FasterSkier.com

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