06:52
7 years ago
Michael Pavitt
at the Sheraton Grand Doha Resort & Convention Hotel
Michael Pavitt

"We cannot kill the clean athletes because of their nationality" Sheikh Ahmad claims

Sheikh Ahmad is now talking about the allegations of state-sponsored doping in Russia which dominated the build-up to Rio 2016. 

"We cannot kill the clean athletes because of their nationality," Sheikh Ahmad says.

"My clean athletes won a gold medal under the IOC flag, because they are Kuwati.

"There have been difficult issues for sport. 

"We have worked shoulder to shoulder, CAS, WADA and different sport organisations. 

"The Olympic Summit and Thomas Bach has tried to find a good solution for some of those problems."


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