Doping hurts the athlete, but it also leaves fans, who stay up late in the night to watch races, feeling cheated and taken for a ride. Because a doper’s first instinct is to skip doping tests, your first problem becomes ducking anti-doping agency officials. AdvertisementOnce the World Anti-Doping Agency, Athletes Integrity Unit or World Athletics flags you for doping violations, as an athlete, you become a dead man walking. You are either found guilty of violating World Athletics Anti-doping Rules, tampering with the doping control process, or for actual use of prohibited substances. America’s Justin Gatlin, twice banned for using banned substances, knows this too well, his continued competition at the elite level after serving out the bans having made him a controversial figure.

Source: Daily Nation June 21, 2020 03:56 UTC