Drug link to sport betting

WADA chief executive David Howman. Photo / Herald on Sunday

Interpol and Major League Baseball investigators have given evidence to the World Anti-Doping Agency that criminal gangs selling performance-enhancing drugs also manipulate sports results for betting purposes.

WADA chief executive David Howman, a New Zealander, highlighted the link between the doping and illegal gambling in an address to Commonwealth sports ministers in New Delhi.

Howman called on governments to unite against gambling corruption in sport in the same way they combined to create WADA to control drug use.