The biggest sports events around the world are canceled or postponed due to the corona pandemic. By extension, this also means that many countries have reduced the number of doping tests.

"The cheaters are sitting and smiling right now," Travis Tygart, president of the US anti-doping agency Usada, said recently.

When swimmer Sarah Sjöström visited the Sports Mirror on Sunday, she told how she handles the new everyday life.

- It's the biggest challenge I've ever had to go through. And that's an even bigger challenge for those athletes who couldn't walk to their halls and workouts, which has to be incredibly tough.

She also told me that despite the prevailing situation she is practicing as usual. She keeps the motivation up, but the idea that the number of doping tests has now decreased affects her.

- The only thing that makes me lose my motivation a little is precisely the idea that it can lead to an increase in doping, says the 26-year-old to DN.

- You want all athletes who think of cheating also take a moment and think that they not only destroy the sport, but that they also destroy their own bodies. Yes, they can even die prematurely from it. Surely that risk no medal worth?

Sjöström on the corona crisis: "Incredibly unreal everything right now" (3 May 2020)

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