Cheaters and anti-doping officers - Who wins the race?
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The chase never ends. The athletes using performance-enhancing drugs somehow always manage to stay one step ahead of the anti-drug sports official on their trail.
Though this time WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) and International Olympic Committee are better equipped to catch the use of illegal drugs and steroids by athletes, there still remains loopholes. The authorities have added this time two new tests for human growth hormone and erythropoietin, two previously undetectable drugs that by most accounts have been widely used by elite athletes. Still that may not be enough.
To start with, the test for human growth hormone (HGH) can only detect the substance in the 24 to 48 hours after the drug is injected. To avoid a positive test, an athlete simply has to stop injections a few days before being tested. That interruption would almost certainly not affect performance because the benefits of HGH, which appears to increase muscle mass and strength, can last for weeks or months. (Athletes can be tested randomly, but these tests are infrequent; in any case, observers say, it is relatively easy to avoid these tests by not answering calls or “going out of town.”
Nutrition and training expert Victor Conte says that athletes generally use performance-enhancers months before competition. So, it is useless to conduct the tests during the games itself.
Again, the athletes may be able to avoid positive tests by taking a cocktail made up of low doses of several drugs, including steroids, growth hormone and EPO, as well as other substances and hormones.
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