Overseas coaches to be checked for drugs links
The number of foreign coaches is expected to surge as Britain prepares for the 2012 Olympics in London and anti-doping agency UK Sport are considering how best to look into their backgrounds to check there are no skeletons in the closet.
It follows the case of a Bulgarian, Krassimir Ivanov, who has been given a key coaching role in the British Canoeing Union (BCU), and who was quoted in a Belgian newspaper saying he believes drugs in sport should be legalised to allow a level playing field for all athletes.
