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I watched the Lance Armstrong programme again last night - just one example of how it is made difficult to pin down those who cheat in sport. It seems that there is little enthusiasm from the authorities to deal with the problem, from the judge in the Spanish blood doping case ordering the evidence to be destroyed to athletic bodies being made aware of doping but failing to act until it reaches the press. David Walsh said he was called a blight on cycling for his pursual of Armstrong - by the man at the top of the anti doping agency who was supposed to be cleaning up the sport Vinokourov was found to be blood doping only to return after a short ban to win at the Olympics and then on to management at Astana with no-one seeming to bat an eyelid and this week Sharapova appeals her absolutely laughable ban as if she is hard done by to be stopped from playing for a minimum time