Far be it for me to defend UKAD, especially when it comes to Athletics, but the point they make is absolutely correct; any request to retest samples has to follow due process as laid out in the rules of the sport. To do otherwise completely undermines the anti-doping process.
Yeah fair enough if that's the case, might be selective quoting in the article which implies otherwise.
You'd hope from what they no know about Salazar that they'd be able to be quite targeted in any retesting, and have some feel for whether testing has improved enough now.
Far be it for me to defend UKAD, especially when it comes to Athletics, but the point they make is absolutely correct; any request to retest samples has to follow due process as laid out in the rules of the sport. To do otherwise completely undermines the anti-doping process.