3 UK suspened due to suspcted Doping failures. 2 refused a dope test, and 1 hurdler failed a dope test out of season in SA. Bad news, are some athletes must be stupid, good news caught. I am sort of comforted that athletes are being tested overseas. But they have not be found guilty yet.

After 11 years of running an Athletics site, one starts to reflect. Talking to other parents of kids who do other sports, it is interesting to hear how they approach Youth development. For example in swimming they do not encourage ( or I think allow)U15 to do short sprints. Not sure of the reasoning but it would but interesting to know why. It would appear that T&F athletes who specialise in Sprinting from a very young age suffer more injuries than those who follow a more multi-disciplined training programme. Certainly the success of the Run,Jump and Throw programme in the USA warrants a good look at. Looking back at Emily's time as a young athlete she should have probably done more conditioning work- light weights, flexibility etc, to develop strength from an early age-say 10. Not the UK way, but I now feel that more emphasis should be placed on that aspect of a young athletes training, rather than just Track work. Hard as few clubs have easy access to those facilities, and most gyms will not allow U16 to use them. Some-one should do some research into this.