[2][3][4] He also represented Great Britain twice at the European Athletics Championships, competed in the same years as his Commonwealth appearances.
He also represented England in the shot put, at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.
[7] During the Tokyo Olympic games in 1964, Lucking who was a qualified doctor, felt intimidated against the huge competitors, and found out from them that their weight gain and improved performances had come from taking anabolic steroids.
Lucking went to the chair of the British Amateur Athletics Board, Sir Arthur Gold, and they both discovered that there were no rules against using the drugs and so therefore not illegal.
[8][9][10] Lucking would later work as a drug tester for the British Athletics Federation,[11] and was a defendant as part of the Diane Modahl legal case as he was the chair of the disciplinary panel that had found her guilty.