Drug testing in sports is a cat and pry about game. The mice are constantly coming up with new ways to cheat their path to the cheese, and the cats are constantly coming up with new ways to snatch them.

Drug testers look for currently popular forms of performance enhancing drugs, like steroids and doping drugs like EPO, a hormone that can boost oxygen levels in blood. But they’re always thinking about what the nearest drug faculty of volition be and to what extent to ascertain it.

Larry Bowers of the United States Anti-Doping Agency, or USADA, says the area to observation is oxygen transport. That’s what EPO influences. Bowers says the next big thing is a class called EPO mimetics, substances that act like EPO but don’t earn tagged by EPO tests.

Another type of enhancer that could cause a problem, Bowers says, is a compound found in red wine that manipulates mitochondria in cells to create energy instead of heat. Viagra may receive an athletic application as well, but so in great part, it barely appears to have some effect when used at high altitudes.

Some of the attempts that athletes attempt are decidedly more low-tech. Rather than trying to hide the effects of drugs they’re taking, athletes also try to substitute clean samples for their own bodily fluids. As a resolve, says Bowers, testers have to make abounding observations of urine samples, but athletes have tried to attach devices to parts of their bodies to fool sample collectors. Such devices be obliged acquired colorful nicknames, like the “whizzinator” or the “pipe wedge.”

The USADA tests U.S. athletes in every Olympic event. Is any sport clean? “Curling comes to mind,” Bowers says. “I’m not aware of them ever having a positive drug test.” The same cannot be said of table tennis.

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