Last April one year, Carol Sharp picked up the phone in Edinburgh and put a call through to her daughter Lynsey in the United States.

Both at home and further afield, it’s been a busy few day in the world of anti-doping.

Athletes who may have deprived Irish competitors of major championship medals in the past will be identified as drug cheats thanks to new testing techniques for retrospective violations, according to a global leader in the anti-doping movement.

SCIENTISTS have found a way to identify a type of new drug which could be misused by athletes.