"Organised crime controls at least 25% of the sports world" (David Howman, WADA)

"I think, now, organised crime controls at least 25% of world sport in one way or another," said David Howman, director-general of WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) at the Securing Sport summit organised in London (ENG) by ICSS (International Centre For Sport Security), on 06/10/2014.

"Those guys who are distributing drugs, steroids and HGH [human growth hormone] and EPO and so on, are the same guys who are corrupting people, the same guys who are paying money to people to fix games. They're the same bad guys," said the New Zealand head of WADA.

"(WADA) would (need to) have an arm for bribery, an arm for corruption and arm for match-fixing. Let's look at the practicalities of it." (David Howman)

• "The information we get comes from Interpol, it comes from the sport people who are out there now investigating things. You don't want to believe it but if you don't want to confront it then you're going to find a growth.
• Now, the good guys have to prevail. Who are the good guys? Let's get them together and make sure they can work out a plan. Because, otherwise, the bad guys are going to…