‘There will be athletes who dope’: Olympic commentator’s sobering comment ahead of Paris Games

Olympic commentator David Culbert says it’s evitable there will be cheating athletes who win medals at the upcoming Games in Paris.

Culbert – who will commentate Athletics and Canoe Slalom for Nine – said it was a unfortunate reality a “very small” percentage of athletes will look to gain an unfair advantage.

“There will be athletes who dope that win,” Culbert told Shane McInnes on The Olympics Today podcast. 

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“There’ll be ones, some that get caught at the Games, a very small percentage. Most of them will celebrate their moment, deny a clean athlete the opportunity to have their moment in the sun. And then three years later, the medals will be redistributed.

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