Grant RobertsonSports Minister Grant Robertson has issued a warning to athletes using illegal steroids in New Zealand, saying "you will be caught". It's a wake-up call for everybody who plays sport that the rules around drugs apply across the board," Robertson told the Herald on Sunday. "There's no real discretion for Drug Free Sport — they are obliged to take up these cases when they become aware of them. Townshend was mixing, packaging and selling clenbuterol and other anabolic steroids from his Christchurch home, mainly through the website clenbuterol.co.nz. New Zealand athletes are often competing against far better resourced opponents.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 09, 2017 06:33 UTC