UKAD expect widespread challenges

UKAD's chief executive Andy Parkinson is pleased that of the 21 doping violations prosecuted this year, almost half were from intelligence gathering rather than testing athletes UK anti-doping chiefs expect a deluge of legal challenges to tough new doping sanctions when automatic four-year bans come into force on January 1. The new world anti-doping code will see the automatic ban for using performance-enhancing drugs doubled from the current two years - but only for intentional use. A four-year ban will mean missing an Olympics, and UK Anti-Doping officials anticipate that athletes who are hit with the full sanction will take their cases to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to argue over whether their doping was intentional or not.

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