Half of all athletes taking part in the London Olympic Games will be tested for drugs from today in what is being billed as the biggest anti-doping operation in the history of the games.

Drug cheats heading to next month’s Beijing Olympics have been warned by Britain’s top testing team that “if some idiot takes drugs, we will catch them”.

Dodi al-Fayed may have been planning to propose to Princess Diana on the weekend they died, Lord Stevens’ report concluded.

Martin O’Neill sent Celtic out to face Motherwell at Fir Park hoping the untimely revelations over his delay in signing a new contract had not distracted his title-chasing side from the task in hand of moving level on points with Rangers.