WADA doesn’t celebrate victory, when it comes to legislation of Britain

Officers of the British government will be not capable to stop sportspeople importing steroids to the UK, when they come to take part in the 2012 London Olympics. However application of steroids is forbidden in sports, personal intake of these drugs is legal in the UK. Just distribution of steroids is considered to be illicit in this country. So, if anybody attempts to import quantity of anabolic steroids which is essentially large, he/she will not be allowed to do it.
Before Olympic Games took place in Australia, Canada and China, governments of these countries modified legislation connected with import and application of steroids at least temporally. But the British government doesn’t want to modify steroid laws for the 2012 Olympic Games.
Ironically, while the government of the UK doesn’t desire to make self-administration of steroids criminal, Britain sportspeople are banned for lifetime, if they take anabolic steroids. As for the WADA Code, sportspersons that administer forbidden drugs are banned for two years.
Hugh Robertson, the Olympic minister, notes that it is important to have a universal law related to sentencing. This minister insists on at least 4 years or even longer.  However he is supported by the British Olympic Association, the UK Anti-Doping Agency doesn’t support such harsh punishment. The CEO of the UK Anti-Doping Agency Andi Parkinson states that several sanctions should be softened.
The Olympic minister acknowledges that there are various opinions in sports and it’s not well but he doesn’t ask the CEO of the UKAD to resign.
The spokesman for Hugh Robertson has noted that any sportsperson can have steroids in his/her luggage, when he/she arrives to London. But the amount of steroids must demonstrate that he/she has them only for self-administration. The spokesman has added that it is not criminal for an athlete to apply steroids under laws of the UK but if any athlete is caught taking prohibited preparations, he/she will be punished under anti-doping laws.
The UKAD stated that they would cooperate with border control officials. Information about sportspersons will be utilized by anti-doping officers.
5, 000 drug tests will be conducted by the International Olympic Committee. 1, 000 of these tests will be blood tests.