2008 Olympics without a single positive HGH test
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The much hyped 2008 Olympics at Beijing are over and so are over the extensive HGH tests carried out by the International Olympic Committee. So much so that in the final days of competition the IOC was on pace for more than 500 blood tests for HGH. But most ironically there was not a single case of positive HGH detection.
HGH is being highly talked about in athletes, partly because it is difficult to detect and partly because it has limited side effects. effects. So why wasn’t there a single positive test?
Dr. Gary Wadler, chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s Prohibited List and Methods Sub-Committee, explains this saying that the HGH test is “primarily an out of competition test.” He added that HGH is “not like a stimulant,” that an athlete would take right before a competition, and because the window of detection for an injection of HGH is about two days, it is not difficult for an athlete to clean up their act in time for their competition.
Moreover HGH is not taken alone by most athletes. Multiple former anabolic steroid users told Sports Illustrated that the best way for athletes to avoid testing positive for steroids is to take HGH along with a dose of anabolic steroids low enough that their testosterone/epitestosterone ratio will stay below the legal limit of 4:1.
However, anti-doping authorities have realized this loophole and so, for the first time in Olympics, in the months prior to the Games, WADA labs around the world were provided with HGH test kits. Wadler says he expects WADA to begin out-of-competition HGH testing soon. As for the strategy of combining HGH and lower doses anabolic steroids to avoid detection, Wadler expects that “this paradigm will change as more out-of-competition testing is done.”
To conclude. It can be said here that athletes outweigh the authorities in wit. By the time anti-doping authorities check these loopholes, new methods of using these drugs will come up.
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