IOC announces back to the future dope-testing regime

-Frustration trots medvetenhet om vikten av dopingkontroll. Detta bör förbättras och vi bör ställa krav på, inte bara hög integritet utan på utbildning och förståelse hos dopingkontrollanter och chaperones. Se bara på den senaste ryska dopingskandalen där metoden var att "lämna" en annan persons urin. Hur kunde detta ske? Var fanns övervakningen? Det är inte direkt det enklaste sättet att fuska.- Men,
Vem trodde att våra resurser, de ekonomiska och de inom forskning och hantering av dopande idrottare nu tar nästa steg för att retroaktivt "fånga upp" de som under sin karriär och under detta OS beslutat att fuska sig till framgångar. Man funderar just om ett förebyggande utbildningsarbete hos den personal som hanterar dopingkontrollerna kunde bidra??

On The Beijing Beat: IOC announces back to the future dope-testing regime

Tuesday, 19 August 2008

Doping samples from these Games will be kept for eight years instead of the current six months so they can be retested as technology develops to catch cheats retrospectively. According to Chen Zhiyu, the head of the Beijing anti-doping division, some 4,500 samples of blood and urine will be frozen, and under new IOC guidelines, will be available to the IOC as advanced testing techniques are developed.

The British cycling squad are vociferously in favour of blood testing to keep their sport clean, although Chris Hoy's badly bruised arm is testimony to all the blood tests he has had to provide, not to mention the botched ones.

If the Scot had one complaint about the testing it is how long it takes to extract the blood. Says Hoy: "On the night of the keirin [Saturday], when I had the time trial for the sprint the next morning, it took two hours to go through the whole procedure. It was the most ridiculous drawn-out process. People were sitting round waiting. They just didn't have enough people. It was very disorganised and very unprofessional. I didn't get a meal until after 11.30 that night and I was racing first thing the next morning. Obviously the doping control is there for a reason, and I'm glad it's there, but it could be done a bit better."