Why Olympic drug tester is a challenging job in science?

This job I no fun and games. At the Beijing Olympics and at every Olympics since testing for performance-enhancing drugs began, dozens of officers at special control stations watch while the world’s top athletes urinate into a cup – more than 4000 times over the 21 days of competition. Watch, because urine samples can easily be doctored.

Many times, athletes may cheat even this strict monitoring because the drugs they are using are unknown to the officials doing the checking. Team doctors and coaches the world over are constantly on the lookout for new drugs which can escape the strictest test, so it is tough for the anti-doping agencies to keep up with them.

 

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