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Whistleblowers key to beating drug cheats at London Olympics

ANOTHER British athlete last week tested positive for performance-enhancing steroids, just 24 hours after the new £10m Olympic-accredited anti-doping laboratory was unveiled 30 minutes from the heart of the 2012 Olympic Park.

The two events are unrelated. The facility at Harlow had nothing to do with identifying the two steroids used by Bernice Wilson, an unheralded Jeannie-come-lately to top-level UK sprinting.

The Birchfield athlete improved by four metres in just 13 months at the age of 26 over 60 metres indoors, but tested positive less than three months after having broken into the GB team for the European Indoor Championships in Paris.