TWILIGHT had enveloped the Simien Mountains, high up on the roof of Africa, when a series of high-pitched screams pierced the cold night air. The din increased. Shifting position on the rocks where I was seated, I waited patiently.
DOPING is pervasive in every sport from golf to athletics to football and the sooner sport governing bodies come to terms with this fact the sooner the problem can be reduced if not entirely eradicated.
MILLION pound salaries are commonplace in professional football and it’s not just the players who earn princely sums. Where there is money there are agents, sport science consultants, medical staff as well as personal doctors whose best interests are wrapped up in the players’ success on and off the pitch.
NICOLE SAPSTEAD, chief executive of the body responsible for anti-doping measures in Scottish sport has conceded it is "entirely possible" that football and rugby in this country are tainted by undetected use of performance enhancing substances such as EPO.
