SAIDS refutes claims of 'rampant' South African doping

SOUTH African sport has experienced a downward trend in positive results for performance-enhancing drugs, according to the people who actually do the testing, the South African Institute for Drug-Free Sport (SAIDS).

- MIKE GREENAWAY

This directly contradicts a UK newspaper report on Monday that suggests that doping is rampant in South Africa because SAIDS conducts fewer tests than it did in the past.

The report in The Telegraph, headlined “Decline in South Africa drug-testing casts doubt over World Cup wins’, says that a country with the worst record in rugby for doping has had a sixfold decrease in testing.

Springbok supporters are used to their team getting battered by northern hemisphere critics, and sour grapes will be the cry once more, especially given the comment and perspective given by Khalid Galant, the CEO of SAIDS.