‘Doping Athletes Still On Radar’

Potential drugs cheats are strongly mistaken if they think they can get away with doping while there is reduced testing because of coronavirus, the head of UK Anti-Doping has warned.
Chief executive of the national agency, Nicole Sapstead, said it would be “naive” for athletes and coaches to think they would leave no trace of their activity.
Ukad announced it had significantly scaled back its programme of testing during the coronavirus pandemic, which has so far claimed 33,000 lives.
Some countries, including Russia and Canada, have stopped testing completely.
Last week Travis Tygart, head of US Anti-Doping (Usada), said the situation opened a “window of opportunity” for those not “willing to compete clean”.
However, Sapstead said the agency would “come after” anyone looking to break the rules while they thought they were “off the radar”.
She told Tidesports source: “There will always be a minority that will seek to dope, and whether that is now, when they think they are effectively off the radar of national anti-doping organisations, or at any other time, my message to them is very, very clear, we will continue to process intelligence, we will continue to monitor whereabouts, we will continue to monitor the raft of information we have available to us, such as the athlete biological