Former marathon star Paula Radcliffe says athletes should not release their blood test data.
Amid recent doping scandals, a number of athletes have released their blood values to prove that they are clean, but in an exclusive interview with BBC Sports Editor Dan Roan, Radcliffe says the data is too complicated to be put into the public domain.
"The key point is you can't prove you are clean. We don't have a foolproof, 100 per cent testing programme in place right now so we can't prove that. In some sense, what WADA (world anti-doping agency) are trying to say is we don't want this data out there in the public domain because people don't understand it, it is very complicated," said the three-time London Marathon winner and 2005 world champion.
Also insisting that she raced clean during her illustrious career, Radcliffe also said: "I think if you put too much of that information in the public domain you risk doing a lot of things, you risk it being misunderstood and misinterpreted, you also risk putting information into the hands of people who are trying to cheat that system and who then are going to learn the information of how to manipulate and how to make sure they stay within this perfect zone and that is not what we want or what it was ever designed to do."
You can watch and read the full interview on BBC Sport.
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