The AIU has chosen to channel its resources into targeting elite athletes because the impact of exposing the cheats among them is far greater than with lesser known counterparts.
"We could give you 10 doping cases tomorrow if we wanted to get our stats up," Clothier says. Because doping is rampant among lower-level athletes?
"In some places, yes. But that [catching fringe competitors] is not some great achievement for clean athletics. This means also investigating athletes from developed countries, not least because their motivation to cheat is of a subtly different form: sponsorship deals are far more lucrative in first-world economies.
Interesting. I'll believe it when I see it.