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British Heavyweight Tyson Fury Claims Boxing Has 'Big Problem' With Doping

British heavyweight Tyson Fury said that boxing has a "big problem" with doping, according to the BBC. Fury, 27, will fight for the world title against Wladimir Klitschko in Germany on Saturday. Fury said, "I can look at a man and tell you if he's full of drugs by one glance at his body with his top off. Boxing has got a big problem with drugs. But it doesn't bother me because at the end of the day it's about determination over drugs." The British Boxing Board of Control said it was "firmly against doping in the sport" and General Secretary Robert Smith said that he did not agree there was a "major problem." Fury believes the only way to make things "fully fair" is to legalize doping in sport, but concedes taking such drugs "can have a long-term impact on a person's health." He said, "If a man wants to pump himself full of drugs it's only shortening his life isn't it? When you're pumping yourself full of drugs it's putting pressure on your heart, your liver, your lungs, your kidneys." The BBBoC said in a statement that it was "committed in its fight against drug use in professional boxing" (BBC, 11/24).

TOUGH TASK: The BELFAST TELEGRAPH reported Welsh Rugby Union CEO Martyn Phillips "admits eradicating the drugs problem from the domestic game is not going to be easy." Seventeen rugby players from Wales -- 10 from union and seven from league -- are currently on the UK Anti-Doping banned list, "with the majority found to have traces of anabolic steroids in their systems." UKAD figures reveal players from Wales make up 34% of all sportsmen and women serving drugs bans. A former semi-professional player who wished to remain anonymous said, "I think people are probably blind to it and if the truth came out I think there would be probably a lot more players who are banned from playing. It's totally off-the-scale. Drugs made a massive difference to me as a rugby player." While the numbers caught are a "small percentage of the thousands that play rugby and do not represent the elite levels of the game," there have been a number of "alarming cases down the Welsh pyramid in recent years." Phillips: "It's a problem in society to start with" (BELFAST TELEGRAPH, 11/24).

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