I once read that cheats are a decade in front of testers. It takes a long time to devise tests like the biological passport, but chemists seem to be able to pretty quickly find ways to circumvent the new tests. Micro dosing gets a lot of mention, something Alberto Salazar has had a hand in. He juiced his sons Alex and Tony to see how they would test. He said he did it because his training group feared sabotage. That someone would rub small traces of testosterone on an athlete to have them test positive. It seems that it must not register, if this is the new way to cheat. Salazar has been accused of providing athletes with banned substances. Not proven.
One man who knows a thing or two about cheating is Victor Conte. He said. "If you inject 7 milligrammes of testosterone a day, now you have the 7mg your body is releasing plus the 7mg you’re injecting,’ he said. ‘So now you’ve doubled it and you have 14mg of testosterone circulating for 24 hours a day and you’re flying under the radar (of the testers). I’ve heard hundreds of athletes are doing this."
According to Conte, the other preferred option is a slow-acting drug called IGF1LR3. Conte again. "It’s a long-form insulin growth hormone which is in the system for 10 hours, a combination of insulin and growth hormone,’ he said. ‘The only way to bring doping charges over IGF1LR3 is to use an athlete’s biological passport over time and then you see variations. I believe there is rampant use of it right now."
The World Anti Doping Agency is not backward in claiming that biological passports have the cheats on the back foot, but an eye opening comment from the head of the UK's accredited testing lab at King's College, paints a different story. He remains confident he will eventually catch the micro-dosers.
From the Daily Mail.
One man who knows a thing or two about cheating is Victor Conte. He said. "If you inject 7 milligrammes of testosterone a day, now you have the 7mg your body is releasing plus the 7mg you’re injecting,’ he said. ‘So now you’ve doubled it and you have 14mg of testosterone circulating for 24 hours a day and you’re flying under the radar (of the testers). I’ve heard hundreds of athletes are doing this."
According to Conte, the other preferred option is a slow-acting drug called IGF1LR3. Conte again. "It’s a long-form insulin growth hormone which is in the system for 10 hours, a combination of insulin and growth hormone,’ he said. ‘The only way to bring doping charges over IGF1LR3 is to use an athlete’s biological passport over time and then you see variations. I believe there is rampant use of it right now."
The World Anti Doping Agency is not backward in claiming that biological passports have the cheats on the back foot, but an eye opening comment from the head of the UK's accredited testing lab at King's College, paints a different story. He remains confident he will eventually catch the micro-dosers.
From the Daily Mail.
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