Major loophole in global anti-doping battle about to be closed
03.03.2009
A major loophole in the global anti-doping battle is about to be closed.
The World Anti-Doping Agency expects to shortly circulate new instructions for its accredited drug testers that will allow them to use revised methods to catch athletes cheating with EPO, one of the most widely abused banned substances in sports.
EPO-abusers who thought they had slipped through the cracks could now be in for a nasty surprise, because some samples that couldn't previously be declared positive but nonetheless seemed suspicious could now be retested. Those samples have been stored in freezers, waiting for WADA's new anti-EPO tools.
SOURCE: The Associated Press