Does Clarke have a point? Or should drugs in sport be roundly condemned?
This debate is now closed. A selection of your e-mails appear below. Under no circumstances should performance enhancing drugs be used in sport. It is cheating and leaves the majority of honest runners at a disadvantage. As a runner myself, a member of a local running club who does several races from 5K to marathon, I could not look at myself in the mirror if I had taken any performing enhancing drug. If I run a good time, I run a good time. If I run a bad time, I run a bad time. However fast or slow I run I know that my race time is honest and true. Christopher Barrett, Great Britain Isn’t the whole point of athletics to test a person’s physical abilities and not what a drug can do for someone? It was an irresponsible thing to say in my view. Damien, England ” Athletes should be setting an example for young Athletes coming through the ranks ” Andrew, Scotland In some sports drugs might as well be legal as they don’t test for them at all. When did you ever hear of a tennis player being
