hasn't been around for a long time, but, then again, either have the drugs. Current drug screening is behind the pace set by the advancing drug market. Urine testing is by far the easiest because of the ease of collection and most drugs show up better, being concentrated and all. In a urine test, the athlete provides a 75 ml specimen under the supervision of a chaperone to be sent out to a lab9. The use of blood tests started in the Sydney games. It is used to detect the presence of drugs like EPO and hGH, that don't show up in urine tests10. However advanced these tests are, there are still drugs that avoid detection. Only the basic performance enhancing drugs are being detected. This creates a problem for the "clean" athletes and for the integrity of the Olympic Games. This is the main reason for drug test advancement.Some people feel that the drug tests shouldn't be advanced to the point where you could get your medal taken away for taking some cold medication. For instance, Andreea Raducan was an Olympic gymnast who had her all-around gold medal revoked because she had taken a cold pill given to her by her team doctor11. Some feel that this is unfair, but the Olympic committee feels that if any performance enhancing drug is present in the system, then that person is disqualified. If Andreea Raducan was allowed to keep her medal while having drugs in her system, where would the Olympic committee stop? 12 No matter how you look at it, she still had drugs in her system, granted they probably didn't affect her performance. They still can't allow the presence of a performance enhancing drug to be in an Olympic contender.The drug tests need to be administered as long as there are people taking performance enhancing drugs. Without their advancement, the Olympics will be a competition of who can find the best drugs, rather than a competition of athletic superiority. The Olympic Games have always been a place where we can s...
