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Weightlifter Zoe Smith on 'weird' drugs testing

Champion weightlifter Zoe Smith said a “weird little B&B” was the strangest place she’s ever been drugs tested.

She told 5live's Phil Williams that: “Weightlifting is always on the brink of being thrown out of the Olympics for not being a clean sport”.

Like most professional sports, drugs tests are commonplace in weightlifting. Zoe said competitors “have to fill in an hour every day of where we are going to be” so they can be randomly tested at any time.

The twenty-one year old is hoping to be selected for the Rio Olympic Games in 2016.

This clip was originally broadcast on Phil Williams on 20th August 2015.

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