{Track and field body proposes a number of radical anti-drug proposals in new manifesto to clean sport’s image.}<\/p>\n
UK Athletics has called for world records to be wiped clean and drug cheats to be banned for at least eight years in radical proposals aimed at heralding a new unblemished era for the sport.<\/p>\n
Its document “A Manifesto for Clean Athletics” was published on Monday, three days before the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is due to reveal the second half of its independent report into widespread doping in the sport.<\/p>\n
UK Athletics (UKA), the ruling body of British athletics, made nine key recommendations, including resetting the record books and banning drug cheats for two Olympic cycles.<\/p>\n
It also proposed publishing a public global register of drug tests, the criminalisation of the supply or procurement of performance-enhancing drugs and called for WADA to keep a register of all missed tests.<\/p>\n
Athletics, the showpiece sport of the Olympic Games, experienced a traumatic year in 2015 with life bans for officials after allegations of doping, cover-ups, bribery and corruption.<\/p>\n
Russia was suspended from international competition for what WADA described as “state-sponsored doping”.<\/p>\n
Ed Warner, the UKA chairman, said it was time for “radical reform”, adding that “the integrity of athletics was challenged as never before” in 2015.<\/p>\n
“Trust in the sport is at its lowest point for decades, and clean athletes have been let down,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Greater transparency, tougher sanctions, longer bans – and even resetting the clock on world records for a new era – we should be open to do whatever it takes to restore credibility in the sport.”<\/p>\n
Source:Al Jazeera:[UK Athletics wants world records to be scrubbed clean->http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2016\/01\/uk-athletics-world-records-scrubbed-clean-160111112850545.html]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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