WADA can’t convince British government to change the legislation linked with usage of steroids

Officials of the UK will be not capable to stop sportspeople importing steroids to the UK, when they come to participate in the 2012 Summer Olympics. However intake of steroids is banned in sports, personal intake of these medicines is not illegal in the UK. Just distribution of steroids is claimed to be illegal in this country. So, if anybody wants to import quantity 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 legislation related to import and usage of steroids at least temporally. But the British government doesn’t want to alter steroid legislation for the 2012 Olympics.
Ironically, while the government of the UK doesn’t desire to make personal usage of steroids criminal, Britain sportspersons are banned for lifetime, if they administer anabolic steroids. As for the WADA Code, sportspersons who use banned drugs are banned for 2 years.
The Olympic minister Hugh Robertson notices that it is important to have a universal policy linked with sentencing. This minister insists on at least 4 years or even longer.  Although he is supported by the British Olympic Association, the UK Anti-Doping Agency doesn’t support such harsh punishment. Andy Parkinson, the CEO of the UK Anti-Doping Agency, confirms that certain sanctions must be softened.
The Olympic minister realizes that there are various opinions in sports and it’s not well but he doesn’t ask the CEO of the UKAD to resign.
The spokesperson for the minister has noticed that any sportsperson can have steroids in his/her luggage, when he/she comes to London. But the amount of steroids must confirm that he/she possesses them just for personal administration. The spokesman has noted that it is not criminal for a sportsperson to apply steroids under laws of the UK but if any athlete is caught taking banned products, he/she will be punished under anti-doping laws.
The UKAD noted that they would collaborate with border control officials. Information about sportspersons will be utilized by anti-doping officials.
5, 000 drug test, including 1, 000 blood tests will be conducted by the International Olympic Committee.