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[Definitie:] "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance."
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Drugs can be found retroactively, Pound says
The Globe and Mail Dick Pound sent a message yesterday to any athletes on designer drugs who thought their clandestine cheating had escaped detection at the Athens Olympics.
They're still being watched in the rear-view mirror of the World Anti-Doping Agency. WADA has eight years after the Games to perfect tests for new substances and reopen frozen specimens. An athlete could still be stripped of a 2004 medal in 2012. Pound, the chairman of WADA, said about 300 tests for human growth hormone were performed, 10 per cent of the total, and he had not heard of any positive results. There were 24 doping violations announced at the Olympics, where the International Olympic Committee was in charge of the anti-doping regime, and Pound considered that level of detection signified a great success for the drug busters. Seven medalists were stripped of hardware. "I think the IOC sent a very clear message that doping will simply not be tolerated at the Olympic Games," Pound said in a telephone conference call. These included sanctions for test refusals and test manipulations, as well as positive lab findings. New designer drugs, such as the THG steroid (tetrahydrogestrinone) and modafinil, have been exposed and anti-drug sleuths know there could be more out there that can be discovered and punished retroactively. "We're going to try to surprise some people," Pound said. "We think there may be some people who thought they had something that was undetectable but now is." |
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