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    "id": 645126,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/645126/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ababu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "races like 100m and 200m, had cheated and had tested positive to banned substances in the build up to the 1988 Olympics. It would be proven later that only one athlete in the whole team that raced for the 1988 100m final was clean. The whole team had taken substances. Marion Jones, a girl that many young girls had looked up to also failed because of these banned substances. The list is long. I mention these names to send a warning to our athletes because I know that the law alone is not enough as a deterrent. I mention these names: Sharapova, Maradona, Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis to send a warning to our young athletes that as they participate in sports, whatever means they use to cheat, it will catch up with them. It may take long but it will definitely catch up with them. Take this young lady Marion Jones, she had taken the world of short races by storm. At the 2000 Olympics, this lady won five medals at a single Olympics. It took seven years from 2000 to 2007 when the law finally got up with her for her career to crumble. So, be warned out there if you are an athlete. However long it takes, if you engage in cheating, it will definitely at some point catch up with you. I hope that besides ensuring that athletes and other sportspeople are deterred from engaging in cheating, other actors who are part of this whole cycle are also dealt with decisively. Here, I am thinking about agents. I know that agents play a major role. They are a major influence on athletes across the entire world of sports, whether you are talking about football or athletics. This law must have the capacity to ensure that agents are kept in check. This law must have the capacity to ensure that pharmaceutical agencies that engage in the manufacturing and marketing of these banned substances are dealt with decisively. I want to conclude by giving the example of one of the most famous scandals in the USA that involved a firm called “Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO)”. This is an agency that had perfected the art of providing athletes with nearly undetectable steroids. For a long time, many athletes including Marion Jones that I mentioned last had become clients of BALCO. It is an agency that the American judicial system used as an example---"
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