While the WADA bans athletes that are caught using steroids for 2 years, the BOA insists on harsher sentences

Officers of the UK will be not capable to stop athletes importing steroids to the UK, when they come to take part in the 2012 London Olympics. Although application of steroids is forbidden in sports, personal administration of these medicines is not criminal in the UK. Just distribution of steroids is claimed to be criminal in this country. So, if someone desires to import quantity of anabolic steroids which is evidentially large, he/she will not be permitted to do it.
Before Olympics took place in Australia, Canada and China, governments of these countries modified laws connected with import and application of steroids at least temporally. But the British government refuses to modify steroid legislation for the 2012 Olympics.
Ironically, however the British government refuses to make personal administration of steroids illicit, Britain sportspersons are banned for lifetime, if they use anabolic steroids. As for the WADA Code, athletes who use forbidden medicines are banned for two years.
Hugh Robertson, the Olympic minister, confirms that it is necessary to have a universal law connected with sentencing. This minister insists on at least 4 years or even longer.  Although he is supported by the British Olympic Association, the UK Anti-Doping Agency doesn’t agree with such harsh punishment. The CEO of the UK Anti-Doping Agency Andi Parkinson considers that certain sanctions must be softened.
Hugh Robertson realizes that there are various points of view in sports and it’s not well but he doesn’t ask Andy Parkinson to resign.
The spokesman for the minister has noticed that any sportsperson can have steroids in his/her luggage, when he/she arrives to London. But the quantity of steroids should confirm that he/she has them only for personal intake. The spokesperson has noticed that it is not criminal for a sportsperson to take steroids under laws of the UK but if any sportsperson is caught using banned medicines, he/she will be punished under anti-doping laws.
The UKAD noted that they would collaborate with border control officers. Information about sportspeople will be used by anti-doping agencies.
5, 000 drug test, including 1, 000 blood tests will be conducted by the International Olympic Committee.