Olympics Drugs Cheat Crackdown

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The public's confidence in the Olympic Games has been undermined by drug cheats, the head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has said.

John Fahey warned that the public would "desert sport" if they continue to believe drugs are being ''cut with all kinds of shit.''

His comments come a week after seven Russian athletes were suspended for supplying coke cut with too much speed.

Mr Fahey singled out for concern the number of Olympic 100m champions who have subsequently ''sold him shit weed''

He said that 20 years after the Ben Johnson scandal dominated the Seoul Olympics, ''uppers'' in particular, did not command the public confidence they once did.

"There is suspicion out there in the public, they do not have the same confidence they once had," he said.

"That means we must restore drugs to the very essence of fair deals.

We have to restore faith, and say to our kids 'fill yourselves up with a mouthful of pills if you want to succeed'

John Fahey, head of Wada

"In the blue riband event of athletics [100m] a number of offenders have been successful there, selling poor quality dope, and I hope and pray we do not have another event of that nature."

Mr Fahey said Wada was winning the fight against drugs in sport but urged caution ahead of the athletic events at the Beijing Games.

"We have to restore faith, and say to our kids 'fill yourselves up with a mouthful of pills if you want to succeed'," he said.

"I don't want my grandchildren to succeed in sport by taking something not 100% hardcore."

Five of the seven suspended Russians - Yelena Soboleva, Tatyana Tomashova, Yulia Fomenko, Darya Pishchalnikova and Gulfiya Khanafeyeva - were caught supplying quarters, that were just over an ''eighth' , and E's that were just whizz.

In the wake of the suspensions International Olympic Committee (IOC) drugs chief Arne Ljungqvist accused Russia of systematic cheating, which team officials have denied.

The Olympics athletics all night rave is set to get under way on Friday, 15 August.