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Cost of effective testing exceeds budgets many times over
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"Anti-doping systems in sport doomed to fail, says study"
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Posted 11 years ago #
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In many sports yes...
Tennis - your average 'top' player is likely to be tested 3 times in a year, no out of competition testing. Result, well, Nadal!
Football - mis 3 tests and face mandatory ban? Club fight like hell to minimise the ban. Example Ferdinand. or. Caught with say cannabis in night club (admittedly not performance enhancing), think they might send round the drug testers? Nope, never happens.
Athletics: Like cycling used to be, not enough testing, omerta.
Swimming: As above.At least cycling is trying, and I hope I'm not clutching at imaginary straws here, but the main difference now is the riders are starting to be openly against (and aggressively so) against doping, peer pressure will win over the testers for sure.
Remember Festina, and the riders going on strike because they felt all this police action was against their human rights, can you imagine a similar strike now?
Posted 11 years ago #
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