PARIS: Football may not be represented in the Olympic Games in Athens this summer unless an agreement is reached between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and world football's governing body FIFA on the signing of an anti-doping code, FIFA president Joseph Blatter warned on Monday.
“Mr Dick Pound, WADA president, informed us on Saturday in Zurich that he could not make exceptions in the world anti-doping code. If we don't reach agreement on this, we will fight alone against doping,” said Blatter after a meeting of FIFA's executive committee here.
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