As Dick Pound, the most senior International Olympic Committee member and a former president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, has said: “When you know you’re going to get tested in competition [and you fail a test], not only are you a crook but a stupid crook.”.
The FA conducted 1,220 tests between January and June this year and crucially 900 were no-notice out-of-competition tests, the kind any anti-doping programme requires if it is serious about catching cheats.
Mudryk, a Ukraine international, has posted on Instagram that he never knowingly used banned substances and that his team is investigating how the finding occurred.
It is the drug of choice for athletes trying to avoid a more complicated steroid regime, though it is ill advised if being regularly tested, because it can take months to clear the body.
| Rob Draper The game either lacks a big drugs problem or isn’t catching cheats – and has long struggled to bring prosecutions.
