Jail for athletes under new doping law in Germany

Just like stealing a car or robbing a store Germans athletes who have been convicted of doping offence could pay the penalty behind bars.

This after news broke via BBC sports that Germany is set to make doping in sport a crime for the first time, with jail terms of up to three years for athletes found guilty.

The draft is scheduled to be presented by ministers on Wednesday with the law going before parliament in spring 2015.

About 7,000 German professional athletes who are covered by the national testing program will be affected by the new law.

Not only German athletes but any Foreign athletes who is caught doping in Germany will also run the risk of imprisonment.

Germany has become one of the first countries that have measures and strategies to stamp out drug cheating in sports.

Just recently one of their athlete in Discus thrower Robert Harting asked the IAAF to remove his name from the list of nominees for the sports man of the year 2014, because he did not want to be on a list with former drug offender, American Justin Gatlin.