UKAD will collaborate with border officials in order to catch Olympic athletes that use steroids

Officers of the UK will be not able to stop sportspersons importing steroids to the UK, when they come to take part in the 2012 Olympics. However intake of steroids is prohibited in sports, personal administration of these medicines is not illegal in the UK. Just sale of steroids is considered to be criminal in this country. So, if anybody desires to import amount of anabolic steroids that is significantly large, he/she will not be allowed to do it.
Before Olympics took place in Australia, Canada and China, governments of these countries modified laws linked with import and intake of steroids at least temporally. But the British government doesn’t want to modify steroid laws for the 2012 Olympic Games.
Ironically, however the government of the UK refuses to make self-administration of steroids criminal, Britain athletes are banned for lifetime, if they use anabolic steroids. When it comes to the WADA Code, sportspersons that administer forbidden products are banned for two years.
The Olympic minister Hugh Robertson notes that it is necessary to have a universal law connected with sentencing. This minister insists on at least 4 years or even longer.  However this minister is supported by the British Olympic Association, the UK Anti-Doping Agency doesn’t support such harsh sanction. Andy Parkinson, the CEO of the UK Anti-Doping Agency, claims that certain sanctions should be softened.
Hugh Robertson acknowledges that there are different opinions in sports and it’s not well but he doesn’t ask Andy Parkinson to resign.
The spokesperson for the minister has noted that any sportsperson can have steroids in his/her luggage, when he/she comes to London. But the amount of steroids should demonstrate that he/she has them just for self-administration. The spokesperson has noticed that it is not illegal for an athlete to administer steroids under laws of the UK but if any sportsperson is caught administering prohibited medicines, he/she will be punished under anti-doping laws.
The UKAD stated that they would collaborate with border control officials. Information about athletes will be used by anti-doping officers.
5, 000 drug test, including 1, 000 blood tests will be conducted by the International Olympic Committee.