Doping

www.insidethegames.biz/blogs/15308

Read this.

This is exactly what I have been saying for years: labs won't catch the cheaters.

Good old-fashioned police work will.

You turn a top level enforcement body cheaters and they will put them out of business in 30 days and totally interrupt their supply chain. And catch some cheating associates (owners, too!) in the process. This is where the money is better spent.

This is the real battle. Not all of the uniform drug testing stuff. That is child's play.

Interesting link, very. "What has become more apparent now is that the mode of collection of evidence need not be simply nor solely through the means of testing." He's not suggesting that dope testing should be done away with, but rather it shouldn't be expected to stand alone as is often the case.

Scheduled checks are always vulnerable ... agree that sudden unannounced sampling would be a better idea. Likewise inside information might tell where to take samples. Maybe repeat sampling when the drug-users think they can relax because they've already been tested ... rather like traffic cops putting a speed trap in an obvious place ... and then placing another trap just over the next hill.

Likewise he's got a point that it's all very well catching the small fish but we often let the sharks swim off scot free. Drug testing alone won't help with that, it never was designed for this purpose ... for that we need the grubby-mac brigade. Drug testing is one weapon (and only one) in the brigade's armory.

But they need every weapon they can muster I'd say, as the cunning of their opponents is considerable and the stakes high. Just that this weapon could be better deployed than it is at present.