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The Australian Sports Drug Agency Asda survey of 620 athletes said more than 56 per cent felt the need to succeed at the upcoming games was putting the onus on athletes to use banned substances. But the survey also found that 97 per cent condemned the deliberate use of prohibited drugs. Athletes overwhelmingly cited Australia, Canada and Britain as having the least widespread problem with drugs in sport.

The survey was released on the day Australian swimmer Richard Upton was fined 1,340 and handed a severe reprimand for testing positive to a prohibited drug.

Injured Graham Thorpe sent home

BRIDGETOWN: England have sent their injured left-handed middle-order batsmen Graham Thorpe home on the eve of the second one-dayinternational against the West Indies.

Thorpe had been suffering from a back problem 8212; said to be disc trouble 8212; since the fifth Test and last night it was decided that rather than try to treat him in the 10 days remaining of the tour to the Caribbean they would send him back to England. The decision was taken so quickly that Thorpe had to travel to the airport in Barbados and wait for a standby seat.