Someone Please Explain.................

British Olympic Association Chief Colin Moynihan clearly is not a happy bunny.  He certainly had a few choice words for WADA at a International Federations Forum in Lausanne today.  You get the feeling Colin Moynihan has a pretty hard line stance on the drug cheaters.  As per the current British Olympic Bylaw, if you are banned from any sport for a period longer than six months then your opportunity to represent Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the Olympics is down the plug hole, flushed down toilet, gone.  Moynihan doesn't forgive and forget.  He simply thinks of all the opportunities denied to "clean" athletes because of cheating colleagues.

What i've never been able to understand is Britain holds a hard line stance against drug cheaters by banning them from participating in Olympic Games, yet they can represent their country at other championships after they have served their drug ban.  I appreciate the British Olympic Association is a totally separate entity to other Sporting Bodies staging championships, but surely the same principle arises Mr Moynihan.  These drug cheats have previously denied "clean" athletes winning medals or achieving the honour of representing their country at World, European and Commonwealth championships.  The Olympics are well the Olympics, the greatest sporting festival on this earth, but surely you can't say that the World or European championships are simply less important because of their scale.  Athletes from any sport take pride in representing their country (mostly), whatever the event.

That is why the powers that be need to decide are they simply going to be  a token gesture as a deterrant for sportsmen and women considering taking drugs by banning them for a certain period of time or are they going to have the courage to ban drug cheats for life.  Uniformity is the name of the game.  Otherwise we'll be playing let's have fun in court with the cheats' lawyers finding legal loop holes left right and centre to ensure they are standing on the starting line at London 2012.