Doping makes sport dirty, Pope
Francis said while receiving the Italian Volleyball Federation
in audience at the Vatican Monday.
Francis said taking performance-enhancing substances stained
sport with falsehoods.
"Sport must promote healthy competitive spirit, without
succumbing to the temptation to win by trampling on the rules,"
Francis told the volleyball federation reps.
Sacrifice, training and rigour are essential elements of sport,
while the practice of doping, besides being dangerous, is a
deception that takes away beauty and fun from the game, staining
it with falsehood and making it dirty".
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