who has since admitted to being part of a systematic doping programme. swimming s governing body, fina, is now planning to investigate suggestions of past doping, such as east germany s programme in the 1970s and 1980s, and davies is hoping her dad will get to see her with the gold. he is 85 years old, my family made massive sacrifices, they went without holidays, my brothers went without holidays, my brothers went without school uniform, my mum went without school uniform, my mum went without a washing machine so i could do my sport, no lottery those days pulled at my dad was a full time coach, not paid a lot, had to beg steal or borrow to get money to do it and gave up hisjob. now, keepy up with a balloon is something most of us have done, in the house, as kids. may be as grown ups! well, there is now a world cup where the athletes take it very seriously, complete with safety gear and helmets, with obstacles such as cars, placed in the arena. this is in spain, organised by football s