Olympic champion Wells facing cheat claims

secretly recorded conversations where Dr Jimmy Ledingham, British men’s Olympic team doctor from 1979-87, admitted supplying Wells with steroids. He said: ‘What I was doing it for was that I knew bloody well that the bloke standing next to you on the blocks was taking the stuff.’ When asked if Wells was also getting his steroids, or ‘stuff’ from him, Ledingham replied: ‘He (Wells) was taking stuff from all over the place, not just from me. Everybody knew Wells took drugs.’ McMaster was part of the same Scottish 4x100m relay team as Wells which won gold at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada, together with Cameron Sharp and David Jenkins. Years later McMaster and Jenkins admitted taking drugs and in 1995 McMaster made drug allegations against Wells (left), which were denied at the time. News of the latest claims first emerged last week and Wells said: ‘I could never have taken drugs. I

just could not have lived with myself. Once again I find myself having to publicly deny these false and malicious rumours about doping. It’s been unexpected and has been difficult to deal with. I strenuously denied any involvement in doping at the time and I will continue to do so. I can look back with substantial pride on my achievements.’

ALLAN WELLS took drugs before winning Olympic 100 metres gold in Moscow in 1980, according to allegations in a BBC documentary. Wells, one of only three Britons to win the Olympics’ flagship race, is accused of taking the banned anabolic steroid stanozolol, a claim he has rejected as a ‘shocking slur’. His former team-mate Drew McMaster claimed he had