Competition among Scientists and Steroid-taking Sportsmen begins to prevent Olympic Doping
by admin ~ August 10th, 2009.
Scientists have been trying hard to prevent steroids from being in use in the Olympics. In this respect, they have been coming with new plans and strategies so that the shadow of doping does not fall again on sportsmen and spirit of the game.
Necessary steps to eradicate steroids from sports have already been in the pipeline for long and it is believed that performance enhancing drugs will finally find no place with sportsmen as per a four-decade review by three of the World’s leading experts on doping in sport.
From News-Medical.Net:
“A cardinal feature of doping is that some athletes will experiment with any new substance that might improve their performance” says Professor Don Catlin, Founder and former Director of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) accredited laboratory at the University of California, USA, and CEO of the Anti-Doping Research Institute.
“They do not wait for regulatory approvals. If they can obtain a supply they will try it. This means that scientists need to anticipate and develop tests even before the drug has been misused by athletes.
“Considerable concerns have also been expressed about gene doping, a prohibited spin off of gene manipulation, a medical advance that has been developed to alter a person’s DNA to fight diseases like muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis.”
The paper is co-written with two other leading experts - Professor Arne Ljungqvist, Vice President of WADA and Professor Emeritus at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden, and Professor Ken Fitch from the University of Western Australia, who was a sports medicine consultant for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
The most difficult task before scientists will be to educate sportsmen about use of steroids and its possible side-effects. The fact that some sportsmen abuse steroids to gain on-field advantages is one of the most concerning facts before people who want to eliminate steroids from sports.
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