Are all athletes morons (or is this one a special case)?

Jaw-droppingly stupendous stupidness from Mark Lewis-Francis who is a British sprinter.

Athletes may be required without notice to submit to a drug test as part of efforts to control and limit the extent of cheating, through drug enhancement, within sport. Athletes are required to provide advance notice of their whereabouts at all times. Three strikes (within a five year period) and you're out: happen to be not where you are supposed to be when the tester calls three times and you are out of competition for a year.

They all know that the drug testers will call, but not when; and they know perfectly well why this regime has been put in place. The consequences of missing tests have been spelled out and are clear as crystal.

So consider now some of the words of Mr Lewis-Francis, who tested positive for cannabis in 2005 and was stripped of his silver medal won at the European Indoor Championships in Madrid in the same year.

"My two are for being lazy. It was while the system was brand new and they should have given us a bit of leniency. I think it's a rubbish system."

"I do not understand why they are singling us out as British athletes. We are not the biggest cheats in the world."

"I feel like I am back at school and have to report to the headmaster everywhere I go."

Diddums