Dopers are evading detection, says AIU chair
December 17, 2025
Speaking on behalf of the Athletics Integrity Unit, David Howman recently warned at the World Conference on Doping in Sport that the anti-doping system has ‘stalled’, is failing to detect enough elite cheats and needs significant improvements.
Howman delivered the message during his appearance at the event held in Busan, Republic of Korea, before institutional leaders, sports administrators and sector experts. The New Zealand lawyer, who served for 13 years as Director General of the World Anti-Doping Agency, offered a forthright diagnosis and started from a premise shared by the anti-doping movement: the common goal of achieving ‘a cleaner sports landscape’. He warned that the progress achieved in recent decades has not been sufficient to stop the most sophisticated cheats and argued for closer collaboration not only within athletics, but across different sports, to share science, data and systems of control. inside the games
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