We must recognise it’s not about foreigners doping. It’s real, it’s live and it’s here in the UK

Evening Standard


Ask the man who set up UK Anti-Doping three years ago whether he is confident that UK sport is clean and his answer is sobering.

“Do you know what, I don’t know.” says Andy Parkinson. “The only people that can tell you are the athletes themselves. What I can say is we’ve got one of the most robust programmes, as many tools as we possibly can have to catch drug cheats.”