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DAVID JENKINS spoke with a flippant geniality and a nonchalant air, but there was nothing sanguine about his message to the rafts of harassed Olympic officials who will be crossing their fingers and praying to the Almighty that the imminent Sydney Games are not blighted by the kind of messy, all-embracing controversy which has become a depressingly regular feature of these occasions. "Don't bet on it. The doping procedures might be improving, but so are the range of options open to athl
Jenkins went to prison for 10 months in 1988 after being convicted of conspiring to smuggle and distribute anabolic steroids.
"There are some other athletes in Britain now who are living a perpetual lie," he says. "Some of them have even marched up to Elizabeth Windsor's house and shaken her hand and duly collected their little medal."
• Scottish athlete David Jenkins interviewed by Neil Drysdale
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