Mr. Bach, IOC Executive Members, and bosses of the sports confederations. Read this text! It is the angry accusation, and cry for help, of an Olympic Games Coach, who is in despair over doping - especially state doping.

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Oliver Caruso (42) is the National Coach of the German weightlifters. BILD met with him in the Olympic Village. Caruso is demanding the exclusion of seven countries.

„Besides Russia and Bulgaria (who are already excluded from the Olympic Games – ed.), there are many other countries that are also systematically doping. Kazakhstan, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine need to be equally excluded. These countries stole starting positions from us, and maybe even medals.”

But for years now, the conditions in the International Federation have been said to be catastrophic.

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„The system is sick. The entire system is corrupt. Someone has to cover up what is happening, after all. I know how this works. A foreign coach once told me how it works in his country. They are warned before the doping hunters come.”

Caruso shakes his head. „I can tell you, it’s so frustrating.” He repeatedly taps a piece of A4 paper listing all doping cases since 2008.

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„Since 2012, there have been 27 positive doping cases overall in Kazakhstan, and 24 in Azerbaijan – and it just continues. Kazakhstan and Belarus were supposed to be banned prior to the Olympic Games for a year (because of the many doping cases – ed.). This will still happen – but only after the Olympic Games. It makes you feel like you’re being fooled. Some people are suspended, others come back from suspension and can start again. It no longer does any good, it doesn’t hurt them much, since they will probably be back for the next world championship anyway.”

Caruso demands: “The IOC should have said: Kazakhstan – 27 doping cases since 2012? Get out! Belarus – 14 cases? You have systematically cheated: get out! But they are allowed to happily participate.”

Anyone wanting to shine light upon the goings-on hits a wall of ignorance, cover-ups, and avoidance.

When Caruso was still a junior National Coach, he participated in the Youth Olympics in 2010. In order to count as a role model for the fresh talent, he first had to sign a declaration that he had never had anything to do with doping drugs. Otherwise, he would not have been admitted by the IOC.

Then, the former World Champion Caruso ran into an Azerbaijani against whom he had fought earlier in his career.

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„That guy was under suspension for life. I pointed this out to the officials, but nothing happened.“ This shows that apparently, no one in world sport cares about its own rules. What matters is a shiny façade. What matters is avoiding scandals.

Caruso is extremely frustrated: „I love my sport. But sometimes I no longer know how to prepare my athletes for the competition. We work so hard. It’s painful how dishonest all of this is. I am simply afraid that my team will give up in frustration at some point. So far in our team, we have been pushing these things out of our minds. The people who deceive you take your motivation away from you. I have to leave someone like Max Lang (German weightlifter – ed.) at home, because other nations are systematically deceiving. This has been bugging me for months. Now it needs to come out, we need to be listened to.”

The hope that things will improve is small. Caruso: „Radical measures have to be taken. The message has to be: ‘If you continue to systematically dope, we will start only with clean nations in the future. We finally have to take a stand.”

Coach Caruso is taking a stand! So what about the IOC?