Oly: Lure of gold leaves Olympics prone to doping cheats

AAP Sports News (Australia), July, 2008

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AP Sports News (Australia) 07-31-2008 Oly: Lure of gold leaves Olympics prone to doping cheats By Guy Jackson LONDON, July 31 AFP - The Beijing Olympics will see the biggest anti-doping effort in history but the omens for a drug-free Games are not good. Alongside steroids and the blood-booster EPO, testers have promised developments in tracing substances such as human growth hormone, which are undetectable with standard testing methods. The chairman of the International Olympic Committee's Medical Commission, professor Arne Ljungqvist, said recently: "While it is to our advantage to not release all the details, enhanced testing will be administered in Beijing. "You can expect continued efforts to detect human growth hormone and EPO." ...