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...ANABOLIC STEROIDS These are strength builders (see chart, page 92). Short-acting, water-based steroids are now available that flush from the system in a matter of hours. The most popular are synthetic derivatives of testosterone, a hormone already present in the body. They are extremely difficult to detect. Testing for testosterone in Sydney will involve the maligned t/e (testosterone/epitestosterone) ratio. The usual ratio of these two hormones in a urine sample is about 1 to 1. Very few people have naturally elevated t/e ratios of 4 or 5, but the cut-off for the Sydney test...
...been better, because drug testing as it has existed heretofore means little. The I.O.C., fearing false positive tests of clean athletes and subsequent lawsuits in nations that enjoy due process (read, the U.S.), has set its "dirty" bar extremely high. And most cheaters are careful to choose hard-to-detect drugs or stop their intake well in advance of expected tests...
Epidemiologist Charles Yesalis of Penn State, an expert on performance enhancers, says new I.O.C. testing for EPO is "fluff," that it won't detect athletes who quit taking the drug a week or so before the Games...
...works by reducing protein breakdown and stimulating cell production. Studies in mice have shown that IGF-1 increased muscle strength up to 27%, and even at a cost of $3,000 a month, what athlete doesn't want to be Mighty Mouse? There's no test yet to detect...
Soon after he arrived, Clinton got some direct evidence of the deadly consequences of the two wars raging in this country, drugs and rebels. At the port, where he saw how Colombians detect and seize illegal drugs carried on speedboats or hidden inside industrial machinery, he met the widows and mothers of 12 military men and police officers slain in the line of duty. One of them broke down and sobbed emotionally as she told the president how her husband had been captured and tortured by rebels before he was killed. "You must help us," she sobbed. "I came...