Drugs cheats at London 2012 will be caught but athletes who put in world record-breaking performances should be given the benefit of the doubt, the Olympics’ world body said yesterday.

THERE was good news for Ireland ahead of next year’s Olympic Games in London following the appointment of Dr Marie-Elaine Grant to the International Olympic Committee’s Medical Commission (Games Group).

FOR the first time the Olympic Torch could be carried through the streets of Dublin if negotiations between the London 2012 organising committee and the OCI President, Pat Hickey, reach a successful conclusion.

FRANKIE SHEAHAN is still counting the financial costs — possibly as much as €100,000 — of finally proving his innocence.

THE medical director of the International Olympic Committee has poured cold water on a potential defence by Ireland and Munster hooker Frankie Sheahan that excess levels of the banned drug salbutamol was caused by stress and dehydration.