Since the superbly organised and well run Olympic games in Beijing, in China over the summer, the only news athletics has had has revolved around drugs and cheating. And today is no different.
Athletics coach Trevor Graham has been sentenced to house arrest for a year after he lied to agents investigating the Balco doping scandal.
Graham had previously supplied the US Anti-Doping Agency with a previously undetectable steroid with sparked a massive American drugs investigation.
BALCO
Balco had previously been invovled with Marion Jones, Tim Montgomery and Justin Gatlin, all coached by Graham, aswell as Dwain Chambers. Other sports such as the NFL and the MLB also had several players involved with Balco. Graham's deliverence of this previously un-detectable steroid led to 20 competitions being found in use of the drug.
Following on from the 7 Russian athletes being banned, although these athletes are in the mentality "winning at all costs", this mentality quite obviously is not working, so surely its time for a change?
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