Drug free Olympics – Is it possible?
USADA won’t rest despite presumably clean Olympics
The Beijing Olympics ended a month ago and still, not a single American athlete has been reported for a positive doping test.
A reason to celebrate? Not quite at the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, where good news — all news, really — is looked upon skeptically, and bigger goals are always out there.
“I think there’s a premium to one day being able to show that someone can potentially prove they’re clean instead of just saying they passed a drug test,” USADA’s CEO Travis Tygart said in an interview with The Associated Press. “That’s the ultimate dream.”
That dream will come at a cost and might not be realistic. The most logical way of reaching it would be for USADA to vastly expand its pilot testing program, the regimen that 12 American athletes, including Michael Phelps and Allyson Felix, signed up for before the Beijing Olympics.
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I don’t know if it will ever be possible to have an Olympics that is completely free of performance enhancing drugs. There will always be someone that is trying to cheat. But I think we are getting closer and closer to controling the problems and making the games as fair for everyone as possible.
11 Comments to Drug free Olympics – Is it possible?
One mans ‘cheating’ substance is someone else’s standard supplement 
Keep up the good work.
There will always be the temptation to cheat using drugs in sport but increasing the risk of getting caught will prove to be the biggest deterrant
Read this post for a second time, and I was impressed again with the topic and great content!! Like I said before, keep up the good work. Many thanks… 
I just read somewhere that the swimmers in the Olympics are more likely to show positive for taking steroids than any other athlete. Go figure!!
I like to know where Esidyo came across that information. Please fill us in…
I wish that they would drug test the players right before the event to make sure they aren’t cheating. It would make sense.
Hi again. I agree with JillT it’s about time they drug tested the players especially right before the game. It does make a lot of sense to keep the game honest !!!
I agree, all players should be drug tested and especially before main events!!
I may be a mechanic but I’m among the many who love and watch the olympics. So, to have a drug free olympics would indeed be a great thing!!
Shouldn’t it be mandatory for all participants to be drug tested? I think it’s a must!!
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September 30, 2008