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International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge believes sports authorities are winning the fight against the “corrosive evil” of doping.

Speaking at a World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) meeting in Stockholm, Rogge said that more comprehensive testing procedures, which include storing samples from Olympic athletes for eight years so they can be reanalysed, have helped governing bodies like the IOC gain the upper hand against drug cheats in sport.

“Athletes who cheat and those who assist them are much more likely to get caught,” he added. “The momentum is clearly on our side and cheaters can no longer assume that their secret is safe.

“Wada has helped change attitudes toward doping, [which] is now widely recognised for what it is: a corrosive evil that threatens the integrity of sport.”

Rogge warned that “cheaters will seek new ways of gaining an unfair advantage and we will seek new ways to stop them”, and identified genetic doping as the “next battleground”.