Word: bertrande
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Entrusted with the policing effort are Pharmacologist Robert Dugal and Chemist Michel Bertrand of Montreal's National Institute for Scientific Research. The two men, who performed similar duties at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, are armed with millions of dollars worth of sophisticated laboratory equipment, including 16 gas chromatographs, four of them linked to mass spectrometers. The devices are sensitive enough to pick up one trillionth of a gram of amphetamine in a urine sample. They can also detect other stimulants and painkilling narcotics taken 72 to 96 hours before the test and steroids used as long...
Dugal and Bertrand plan to analyze the urine of 175 athletes every day. And lest any think that they are home free after a clean test, there is the cautionary tale of the East bloc Weight Lifter Valentin Christov. After an early test at the Montreal Games showed that he was clean, he apparently began stoking steroids. A gold medalist, he was automatically selected for a second test. This time the drugs were detected in his urine and he lost his medal and went home in disgrace...