Call for athletes to be fitted with microchips in fight against drug cheats

• Chief executive of World Olympians Association makes implant suggestion
• ‘We’re prepared to chip our dogs, so why aren’t we prepared to chip ourselves?’

Athletes need to be fitted with microchips, in a similar way that dogs are, in the fight against drug cheats in sport, according to a leading representative of international sports people.

Mike Miller, the World Olympians Association chief executive, claimed that radical anti-doping methods – including implants to recognise the effects of banned substances – are needed to protect clean sport.

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