The fight against doping cheats in sports could reach breaking point if more money is not found to finance testing programmes.
The director-general of World Anti-Doping Agency, David Howman, believes that his organisation is under increasing pressure to catch cheats.
But governments, already feeling the pinch of the global economic crisis, have been unwilling to match their demands with hard cash.
Howman says each year his organisation is asked to do more, but each year it doesn't get any more money.
Howman was responding to a report given last weekend to the executive committee which examined the alleged "ineffectiveness of testing" programmes, as less than one percent of the approximately 250,000 tests conducted every year lead to a positive case.
Howman is also concerned about the lack of incentives to catch dopers observed in the international federations or the national anti-doping agencies, who are often reluctant to see major names caught up in a doping scandal.
