Knowledge bank: Programme specialist, Paul Marriott-Lloyd speaks at Play the Game about the realisation of an important milestone in the fight against doping in sport.

Knowledge bank: Have the attitudes to and the use of performance enhancing drugs amongst professional cyclists changed since 1998?

Knowledge bank: In early fall 2003, a new ”Designer steroid”, the first new substance since recombinant Eythropoetin and human Growth Hormone in the late 1980’s, THG, hit the market. Rasmus Damsgaard presents research on this performance enhancing drug.

Knowledge bank: Michael Sauer from the University of Cologne in Germany presents an eye-opening study of doping use amongst German youths.

Knowledge bank: Doping is widespread not only in elite sports but also in fitness centers across the world and it is a highly underestimated problem. 

Knowledge bank: Sandro Donati speaks at Play the Game 2005 about his cooperation for the National Anti-Mafia Directorate as representative of the Association Libera.

Knowledge bank: This conference presentation by Sigmund Loland is a study of procedures and their justifications in the planning and carrying out of doping control in sport.

Elliott Almond, Olympics and Enterprise Reporter for the San Mercury News of San Francisco told conference participants that the BALCO scandal in the US could be compared to the Ben Jonson affair in Canada for its effect in forcing the nation to confront the relationship between national pride, commercialism and doping.