Howman: Sophisticated cheat is most dangerous enemy

    May 30, 2012

    David Howman, WADA's Director General, travels from conference to conference, from meeting to meeting and talks about integrity, honesty and the fight against doping. He listens and he learns, and ensures that practices are put in place and upheld. If you believe in clean sport he is what you would call "one of the good guys".

    But in the shadows, the sophisticated cheats are at work. And they rarely work alone. Each one has their entourage, their enablers, who help them to break the World Anti-Doping Agency code and at the moment, for the most part, they're getting away with it. According to Howman the sophisticated cheat is the most dangerous enemy in the fight against doping. After all, how do you fight an enemy you cannot see?

    "I think they've been sophisticated for a quite a while," he says from a hotel room in Budapest, where he has been for the last two days...