Anti-Doping Agency is the latest body to struggle with Olympic cash shortfall

By Sportsmail Reporter Updated: 19:29 EST, 1 December 2008

Britain's Olympic preparations are not the only aspect of 2012 threatened by Government cutbacks.

The promised independent anti-doping agency, seen as crucial to a drug-free London Olympics, still has no budget.

Colin Moynihan (Lord Moynihan) celebrates the Olympic handover from Beijing to London waving English flags as football player David Beckham and Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell look on during the

British Olympic Association chief Lord Moynihan waves some flags next to David Beckham and Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell - but will the 2012 games be hit with government cutbacks?

On the same agenda on Tuesday at UK Sport's board meeting as the £79 million shortfall in the financing of athletes' preparations is the creation of the first independent UK anti-doping agency.

One of the new agency's most significant roles was to create a proper investigative relationship between sport and law enforcement agencies.

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