Drugs in sport: 'There will always be people who try to break the rules'

In recent years the Athletics Integrity Unit has banned some of the sport’s biggest names, racking up an astonishing number of convictions, particularly in Kenya

SAME ATTITUDE NEEDED: Athletics Integrity Unit chair David Howman. Pic: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

“Not many of the big sports have a very robust anti-doping programme,” says David Howman, one of the world’s foremost experts on drugs in sport. 

“There are many players who will go through their careers in team sports without being tested once. That doesn’t happen in an individual sport.”