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Originally Posted by Scav
They can test blood till the pigs fly and they won't find the good stuff that some of these guys are using. At least they won't find it yet....
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there was an interesting piece on Real Sports about this cycling team that in an effort to attract sponsorship, randonly tests their cyclists like once a week. Since cycling is a mess with drugs (much like horseracing) the sport is on the verge of collapse. No companies want to be associated with cheaters and drug users thus they've experienced a severe decline in sponsorship dollars.
So this team decided to go overboard proactively in testing to try and insure the sponsors would be safe entrusting them to police themselves.
The interesting point of the story was that the first thing they determined was there would be no way to effectively detect every drug, much less designer drugs and desinger masking agents, so rather they test overall blood chemistry and note any major changes in the chemical makeup of the individual cyclist - anything that would signal a change in chemisrty that improved performance would be considered a positive, even though they have no idea what they are positive for