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PARIS — The days are over when Olympic organizers and anti-doping officials would typically predict "the cleanest Games ever." Not at the Paris Olympics. "It's not our role to do it," says World Anti-Doping Agency President Witold Bańka. The former 400-meter runner from Poland says, "You will always find someone who wants to cheat." The lesson of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Games is that it can take years to judge how clean or dirty it was. Dozens of medals were stripped and athletes disqualified years after those Games when new and better tests were used to reanalyze samples.
