Bioanalysis. 2012 Jul;4(13):1529-30.
Anti-doping analysis and the Olympics.
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International Olympic Committee Medical & Scientific Department, hateau de Vidy, Lausanne, 1007, Switzerland. patrick.schamasch@olympic.org.
"The fight against doping has always been, and will remain, linked in peoples’ minds to the image of cops and robbers. For a long time, the ‘cops’ were always lagging behind the ‘robbers’, running after them but never managing to catch up.
For over a decade now, we have seen this trend being reversed, which does not mean, however, that we are ahead of the sophisticated cheaters, preventing them from committing all their crimes.
The sophistication of the tools provided to us by science is equalled only by the ingenuity that the cheats and their entourage use to elude them. However, over the last 10 years, this ‘cat-and-mouse’ game seems to be turning to the advantage of those who are fighting for a healthier playing field, cleaner sport and, in particular, for increased protection of the athletes’ health, protecting them from themselves on the one hand, as well as from their entourage, which often includes people who are prepared to endanger the health of those whom they are supposed to advise and protect.
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This intelligence-sharing indicates the new routes that our enemies could take and, in doing so, allows us to thwart them. Anticipation of doping trends already allows the authorities involved in the fight against doping to move from a reactive to a proactive mode.
We use bellicose terms to describe this fight because this is indeed a war we are waging: a war against a faceless enemy; a war against an enemy that fears neither God nor man and which frequently uses athletes as a means to much more mercenary ends.
In conclusion, the fight against doping is a fight against one of the deviations of human nature; this is to say cheating. We are not naive, and we know full well that our fight must not be likened to the labor of Sisyphus. We do not know if our boulder will one day reach its ultimate summit, but we are doing what we can to bring this goal closer every day."
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