Tamas Ajan has "devoted his life" to clean sport and is a man on a mission -- to rid weightlifting of its doping-scarred history and seal its place back at the heart of the Olympic movement.
"Since 1975 I have been fighting to make weightlifting a clean sport," the president of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) told AFP at the Asian Games in Jakarta.
"I devoted my life against doping," said the highly respected Hungarian sports administrator, who has been secretary general of his country's National Olympic Committee since 1989.
"Naturally, weightlifting is a sensitive sport concerning doping. But every sport, in my opinion, has been dealing with this problem for 50 years."
"I am sorry to say this," said Ajan, "but some countries' leaderships -- and I won't name the countries -- had their competitors use forbidden substances because for them the result was the most important thing."
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"We will see even the 100 metres sprint world record broken again, but not every year."
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