Drugs in sport is an issue that is frequently in the news. Over the past year there has been a number of athletes linked to drug taking scams, the most publicised sports star associated with drugs use was British skiing star, Alain Baxter. He was the first British skier to win an Olympic medal when he won bronze in the slalom at the 2002 winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, USA. Since his positive drugs test …showed first 75 words of 467 total…

…showed last 75 words of 467 total…members of the top Festina team were thrown off the Tour de France. Days later, the riders concerned were thrown in a French jail. Months after the race, top French rider Richard Virenque continued to protest his innocence, but in the autumn a judge ruled that he did take drugs. Whatever the rights and wrongs of this case, there is no question that EPO remains cycling’s enemy within just as it was back in 1999.