WADA chief urges drug cheats to withdraw from the Games

WADA president John Fahey urged drug cheats Tuesday to withdraw from their Olympic teams and stay away from the Games, as they will otherwise face the strictest anti-doping program in Olympic history and stand only a small chance of escaping detection. Read TribLive

“I say this in the clearest way possible: If you are a doping athlete and you are planning to compete in London, then you must withdraw from your Olympic team,” Fahey said in a statement, less than three weeks before the opening ceremony. “Even if a doping athlete were to win a medal, he or she would never be able to look at themselves in the mirror and say, ‘Well done, I deserved this.’ ”