“The Beijing [Olympic] Games will see the largest anti-doping operation ever mounted at a sporting event…

The IOC has seldom been more in need of a clean Games but the uncomfortable truth is that it will not get one, regardless of how many samples are collected…

The threat of random testing remains a crucial deterrent to opportunists and a last line of defence against determined abusers but, two decades after the lid was blown in Olympic sport when Ben Johnson was disqualified in Seoul, the cheats are setting a pace that has exposed the limitations of the test-tube approach.”