Oly: Doping test kits to be ready for Beijing: US

AAP Sports News (Australia), May, 2008

AAP Sports News (Australia) 05-23-2008 Oly: Doping test kits to be ready for Beijing: US WASHINGTON, May 22 AFP - Tests for human growth hormone, which world anti-doping bodies hope to use to trap cheats during the Beijing Olympics, have hit a snag but should be ready by August, a US official said today. "The test for HGH is a blood-based test.

There is a kit that goes along with the test, which is necessary for the lab to run the tests once the blood is received," Travis Tygart, head of the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), told a congressional hearing. "Those kits, unfortunately, had delayed production ... but our expectation is the kits will be available in the coming weeks. "The test is available, it was used in the 2004 Athens games and 2006...