Contemporary issues in the fight against blood doping in sport One Olympic cycle has passed since international media and scientific scrutiny focused upon break-throughs in the fight to deter the widespread abuse of recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO) in sport. The Sydney 2000 Olympic Games was a watershed in that, for the first time, blood samples were collected from athletes and abnormal fluctuations in hemato-logical parameters associated with rHuEPO use could be used as evidence to sanction the athlete for doping. Post-Sydney, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) reviewed the scientific basis of both the blood and urine methodologies used in Sydney, and concluded that the presence of rHuEPO in the urine was sufficien
The paper analyses the modern history of the spread of doping in Olympic sports, the IOC’s fight aga...
Abstract Though we may still sing today, as did Pindar in his eighth Olympian Victory Ode, '&ap...
Recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO) is frequently abused by athletes as a performance-enhancin...
Concerns about stimulant use in sports were published in the New York Times as early as in 1895, but...
The recent Armstrong case, where more than 250 negative doping tests are confronted with the athlete...
Since the commercialization of the first recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) product (epoetin-a...
A serious issue in a number of sports, including some Olympic sports, is using drugs to gain unfair ...
A serious issue in a number of sports, including some Olympic sports, is using drugs to gain unfair ...
In the fight against doping, detection of doping substances in biological matrices is paramount. Ana...
Doping in sports compromises fair play and endangers health. To deter doping among elite athletes, t...
In the last ten years there have been dramatic changes in efforts to tackle the problem of doping in...
Doping is a public health issue and not simply a problem inside the professional sports community It...
The paper contains analysis of modern history of the spread of doping in Olympic sport, the IOC’s fi...
Recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO) doping is prohibited in animal (canine and equine) sport. ...
In elite sport, the Athlete Biological Passport (ABP) was invented to tackle cheaters by monitoring ...
The paper analyses the modern history of the spread of doping in Olympic sports, the IOC’s fight aga...
Abstract Though we may still sing today, as did Pindar in his eighth Olympian Victory Ode, '&ap...
Recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO) is frequently abused by athletes as a performance-enhancin...
Concerns about stimulant use in sports were published in the New York Times as early as in 1895, but...
The recent Armstrong case, where more than 250 negative doping tests are confronted with the athlete...
Since the commercialization of the first recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) product (epoetin-a...
A serious issue in a number of sports, including some Olympic sports, is using drugs to gain unfair ...
A serious issue in a number of sports, including some Olympic sports, is using drugs to gain unfair ...
In the fight against doping, detection of doping substances in biological matrices is paramount. Ana...
Doping in sports compromises fair play and endangers health. To deter doping among elite athletes, t...
In the last ten years there have been dramatic changes in efforts to tackle the problem of doping in...
Doping is a public health issue and not simply a problem inside the professional sports community It...
The paper contains analysis of modern history of the spread of doping in Olympic sport, the IOC’s fi...
Recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO) doping is prohibited in animal (canine and equine) sport. ...
In elite sport, the Athlete Biological Passport (ABP) was invented to tackle cheaters by monitoring ...
The paper analyses the modern history of the spread of doping in Olympic sports, the IOC’s fight aga...
Abstract Though we may still sing today, as did Pindar in his eighth Olympian Victory Ode, '&ap...
Recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO) is frequently abused by athletes as a performance-enhancin...