Different opinions of sport officials about sentences of athletes that are caught taking steroids

Officers of the UK will be not able to stop athletes importing steroids to the UK, when they come to take part in the 2012 Summer Olympics. Although administration of steroids is banned in sports, personal usage of these medicines is not illegal in the UK. Just distribution of steroids is claimed to be criminal in this country. Thus, if someone attempts to import amount of anabolic steroids that is significantly large, he/she will not be allowed to do it.
Before Olympic Games took place in Australia, Canada and China, governments of these countries modified legislation related to import and usage of steroids at least temporally. But the British government refuses to modify steroid laws for the 2012 Olympics.
Ironically, although the British government doesn’t want to make personal usage of steroids criminal, Britain sportspersons are banned for lifetime, if they take anabolic steroids. When it comes to the WADA Code, sportspeople who take banned preparations are banned for 2 years.
The Olympic minister Hugh Robertson confirms that it is important to have a universal law related to sentencing. This minister insists on at least four years or even longer.  While this minister is supported by the British Olympic Association, the UK Anti-Doping Agency doesn’t agree with such harsh sanction. The CEO of the UK Anti-Doping Agency Andi Parkinson considers that several sanctions must be softened.
Hugh Robertson admits that there are different points of view in sports and it’s not well but he doesn’t ask the CEO of the UKAD to resign.
The spokesman for the minister has announced that any sportsperson can have steroids in his/her luggage, when he/she arrives to London. But the amount of steroids must confirm that he/she possesses them just for personal intake. The spokesperson has noted that it is not criminal for a sportsperson to apply steroids under laws of the UK but if any athlete is caught taking prohibited medications, he/she will be punished under anti-doping laws.
The UKAD stated that they would collaborate with border control officers. Information about athletes will be utilized by anti-doping officers.
5, 000 drug tests will be conducted by the International Olympic Committee. 1, 000 of these tests will be blood tests.