The report refers to ‘acute failures’ in both British cycling and athletics around medicine procedures that urgently need addressed. It amounts to one more doping controversy for elite international sport – barely two weeks after several Russian athletes were caught cheating at the Winter Olympics. Whether these incidents amount to mishaps or something worse, the global system for preventing doping is not working properly and needs reform. A key role would be to review anti-doping in all countries and sports to detect and prevent corruption of the testing system. The risk is that less testing of athletes could lead to more doping, so there may be a balance to be struck.

Source: Metro March 12, 2018 17:08 UTC