The government of the UK refuses to change laws connected with personal usage of steroids

Officers of the UK will be not capable to stop sportspeople importing steroids to the UK, when they come to take part in the 2012 Summer Olympics. However intake of steroids is banned in sports, self-administration of these medications is not criminal in the UK. Just distribution of steroids is considered to be illicit in this country. So, if a person desires to import amount of anabolic steroids which is evidentially large, he/she will not be permitted to do it.
Before Olympic Games took place in Australia, Canada and China, governments of these countries changed laws connected with import and usage of steroids at least temporally. But the British government doesn’t agree to change steroid legislation for the 2012 Olympic Games.
Ironically, while the British government refuses to make self-administration of steroids illegal, Britain sportspeople are banned for lifetime, if they apply anabolic steroids. When it comes to the WADA Code, sportspersons that use forbidden medicines are banned for two years.
The Olympic minister Hugh Robertson notices that it is needed to have a universal law related to sentencing. He insists on at least 4 years or even longer.  Although 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 confirms that certain sanctions should be softened.
Hugh Robertson acknowledges that there are different points of view in sports and it’s not well but he doesn’t ask Andy Parkinson to resign.
The spokesperson for the minister has claimed that any sportsperson can have steroids in his/her luggage, when he/she arrives to London. But the amount of steroids must display that he/she has them only for personal usage. The spokesperson has added that it is not criminal for a sportsperson to use steroids under laws of the UK but if any sportsperson is caught using forbidden medicines, he/she will be punished under anti-doping laws.
The UKAD claimed that they would collaborate with border control officers. Information about sportspersons will be utilized by anti-doping agencies.
5, 000 drug test, including 1, 000 blood tests will be conducted by the International Olympic Committee.