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Every two years as the Olympic Games begin, we hear about athletes using or at least being tested for performance-enhancing drugs. Sometimes, competitors raise the question when one athlete does particularly well. Other times, tests catch athletes with drugs in their systems. The practice of using artificial substances or methods to enhance athletic performance is called doping. Doping has become such a great concern that the United States formed an Anti-Doping Agency. Right now, it is almost a certainty that any 14-year-old aspiring athlete anywhere in the world who wants to excel in an endurance or strength sport is aware that the eventual use of illegal, performance enhancing drugs is a strong possibility. The option not to use the drugs will put them at a competitive disadvantage. Their parents most likely do not know this, but the kids do. That is why retired General Barry McCaffrey, Frank Marshall and I, along with our counterparts from around the world, have become participants in a mission to finally put an end to this. General McCaffrey is the White House Drug Czar. He has been working with his cabinet level counterparts from the major nations since early 1999 to take drug testing away from the International Olympic Committee (IOC). With the formation of the new World Anti Doping Agency, this task is almost complete. Frank Marshall's most recent successful Hollywood production is The Sixth Sense. He is a former track athlete, loves the sport, and headed up the public sector task force that recommended U.S drug testing in all Olympic sports be taken away from the United States Olympic Committee, and given to the United States Anti Doping Agency (USADA). I was appointed to the board of directors of this new, truly independent agency at the behest of McCaffrey. At our first meeting in Chicago in March of this year, I went out for a noon run while the rest of the board stayed in for a catered lunch. I returned to the news that I would be chairman. The USADA will take over all testing in all Olympic sports in the United States on October 2, 2000. Any potential Olympic athlete physically in the United States is subject to testing. The goal is to protect the clean athletes, educate those coming up through the ranks and actually try to catch the cheaters. It is my belief that the IOC has always viewed the use of illegal performance enhancing drugs as a public relations problem, not a drug epidemic. Here is a brief, and by no means complete, list of facts that illustrate my point of view: 1. Human Growth Hormone (HgH) has been available in synthetic form since 1982. It produces the same anabolic effect as steroids, but is only detectable through blood testing. Instead of funding research to detect its use, the IOC increased their urine testing budget and held press conferences. There is still no blood test for HgH on line, though one is at hand and the USADA will use it as soon as possible. This coincides with the IOC getting out of drug testing. 2. Documents showing positive tests at the 1984 Games were shredded by the head of the IOC drug committee "by mistake." He has admitted to this. 3. This same man "lost" 18 "B" samples from his hotel room safe at the Atlanta Games in 1996. Samples are divided into "A" and "B" vials at the time of gathering. If the "A" sample shows positive, the "B" sample is tested to confirm. These samples were to be tested for confirmation of "A" positives. He continues to maintain they were stolen. 4. EPO (Erythropoetin) is a synthetic hormone that stimulates red cell production in bone marrow. For those of you who remember "blood doping" this is blood doping in a syringe. Four-to-10 percent increases in performance have been documented. It has been available since 1988 and the IOC never made much effort to develop a test. After McCaffrey showed up at the IOC "Drug Summit" in February of 1999, the IOC stopped funding their internal research on EPO detection and then held a press conference announcing their test would "most likely" not be ready by the Sydney Games. 5. Three years ago, the documentary evidence was uncovered showing that the entire East German Olympic program from 1972-1988 revolved around drug use. At the IOC "Drug Summit" in February of 1999, a four year statute of limitations on cheating was passed. So, when the Sydney Games begin all the cheaters from the 1996 Games who might be discovered in the future are home free. So, will every strength and endurance performance at the Sydney Games be suspect? Draw your own conclusion. The athletes are not dumb, they know what messages have been sent in the past. I and others are pushing to have urine and blood samples from all medal winners frozen and be subject to future testing as the technology catches up. No statute of limitations. Physically, it can be done, but my guess is the IOC will hold another press conference. After Sydney, the most immediate results will become evident in the Olympic sports, but the goal is to protect the clean athletes everywhere, and give them back the physiological and psychological advantage they have lost. After October 2, it is the hope of the USADA that as soon as possible we will be at a point in time where the cheaters will be caught and punished. And, just as importantly, if not caught immediately, then at some time in the future.
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