Radical overhaul urged

Sports Digest: Olympic Games 2012A radical overhaul of Britain's drug-testing regime was urged yesterday by MPs to avoid the London 2012 Olympics being overshadowed by a doping scandal, reports Andrew Culf.

Members of the Commons science and technology committee propose four-year bans for drug cheats and want the government to consider making drug-taking in sport a criminal offence. The committee warns anti-doping agencies are playing a constant game of catch-up and calls for more research into new human-

enhancement technologies, such as gene doping, which could emerge as a threat to the integrity of the 2012 games.

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