Life means life: Tanni Grey-Thompson believes Dwain Chambers should not be able to compete at the Olympics (Photo: Paul Grover)
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson has revealed that she nearly included a recommendation to drug test coaches during her widespread doping review of UK Athletics.
Grey-Thompson's review back in 2009 brought about a toughening of sanctions against drug users, but she said a key measure she wishes she had now included was to have coaches and support staff around athletes also undergo drug tests.
She believes some coaches may be drug takers themselves and sending wrong messages to athletes.
"It wouldn't hurt for them to understand what we have to go through for a drug test either," she said.
The multi-medal winning Paralympian also backed the British Olympic Association's bylaw that prohibits the selection of anyone with a doping conviction.
Despite noises from cycling and track and field at the time of LaShawn Merritt's court victory, which gave the athlete the right to compete at the London Olympics, no one has yet challenged the BOA's tough position.
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British diver Tom Daley is to be immortalised in wax at the Madame Tussauds museum.
Daley tweeted that he would be setting new ground for the museum as he would be wearing nothing other than Speedos.
The work will capture Daley diving mid-air towards the water.
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Freshfields lawyers have been busy dealing with hundreds of small transgressions of the Olympic act which prohibits non-Olympic companies from promoting any association with the London 2012 Olympics.
But the tactic to stamp out small problems to send a deterrent message to the big end of town hasn't hit home. This week a main multinational communications rival to sponsor Samsung was publicising a new phone product " to shine at London Olympics 2012". Legal letters have started to fly.
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Olympic Park Legacy Company chiefs, chair Baroness Margaret Ford and chief executive Andrew Altman will face a grilling next week in the London Assembly over the continuing delays to tender the Olympic Stadium.
Committee chair Dee Doocey said five years after London won the bid "we seem to be back to square one… we want to know what went wrong and what the consequences will be for the taxpayer."
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Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe will delay revealing his 100m freestyle prowess and concentrate on the butterfly and individual medley events as he swims competitively for the first time in five years at the Fina World Cup meets in Singapore, Beijing and Tokyo this month.
But many don't realise that Thorpe, as a 14 year old, was seriously considering concentrating on the 200m butterfly event, such was his dominance of the stroke.
His current Swiss-based coach Gennadi Touretski believes he won't be disgraced in the event.
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