Doping in international sports is still a massive problem. Several of the international sport organizations have now come out and declared that here will be zero tolerance. Labeling this zero tolerance could stop the doping? actually it has not since the 2016 Olympics in RIO the IOC has tried to cut the doping down to nothing but there are ways for them to help get the doping down even farther. The first thing that they have to do is give more benefits to those who are whistle blowers. People should be praising those who blow the whistle on athletes that are doping up. The second thing that IOC can do is to enforce even more strict rules, regulations, and penalties. What the IOC should not is first time offenders should be suspended for fours years for the first time, If an athlete does test positive a second time then they should be banned for eight years. What would happen if an athlete were to be caught a third time, that athlete should be under consideration for being banned for life. The IOC should also be testing athletes around the clock so that way there is no time period for athletes who are doping from being able to get clean. There is a couple of problems that the IOC is going to run into. The first being what does zero tolerance even mean? does this mean that you are cannot take any drugs that are on the list? If you do need that specific drug on the list for a medical reason, will that athlete be suspended? The second problem is how often do you drug test these athletes? should we drug test them every month or every six months? These are some of the questions that we have to ask ourselves.
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