Giving evidence at the inquiry into blood doping in athletics in 2015, Sebastian Coe, president of the IAAF, said that the delay was down to issues surrounding the researchers’ methodologies. “Wada is constantly looking at ways and means to further enhance the effectiveness of the fight against doping in sport for the benefit of clean athletes,” it stated. The authors also explored a host of scenarios under which the athletes might not have answered the doping question truthfully, or otherwise not complied. Don Catlin, one of the pioneers of modern drug-testing, said the study showed doping was far more prevalent than conventional tests suggest. “It’s certainly a lot more reliable than doing anti-doping testing to identify dopers.

Source: The Guardian August 29, 2017 17:16 UTC