WADA confident lockdown not doping 'golden opportunity'

It was promised as the greatest Olympic Games the world would ever see. Just a few weeks from now, Tokyo would have been preparing to open its arms to the most famous athletes on the globe. But the world has changed utterly in such a short time and sport has come to a shuddering halt.

"I don’t think doping now is very efficient for those who want to dope. I’m not saying some might not have done it, or be tempted to do it but it has to come with proper training and at a time where it makes a difference."Double European 400 metres champion David Gillick is now Chair of the Olympic Federation of Ireland’s Athletes Commission. He says many sports stars are concerned.

"My concerns would be that if an athlete is in an environment where there’s already doping then we might see an increase in doping in those environments," he says. Here in Ireland testing has stopped completely, raising fears athletes could fall for temptation. But Sport Ireland’s Head of Anti-Doping Dr Una May is warning other enforcement measures are in place.

But even when testing does resume, there are questions over how it will look. It is by nature an up-close and personal process, which will clearly be impacted by social distancing rules. "But we’re realistic. Clean athletes are going to compete clean. And there are athletes, even when fully operational programmes are in place that will go to great lengths to defeat the system. We saw it with Russian state sponsored doping and with the US postal Cycling team in the US. That’s a little easier now unfortunately," he says referring to the lockdown.

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