dread i see bovell say tonight they doh test blood in swimming, i now see how them men breaking record so
Doesn't mean they don't get urine tested.
urine test does not pick up everything, if u know how to defeat it.
How do you defeat it?
If you tell me that a urine test assay will not be as reliable for certain substances then that's another story. Besides, swimmers deserve whatever benefit of the doubt is extended to them...certainly as compared to sprinters.
check this article, if they don't test for everything how can a sport be clean. That is the issue i have with the swimming
Why is there no blood-testing for drugs at the World Swimming Championships?http://www.sportingo.com/sports/a2888_why-there-no-bloodtesting-drugsBlood testing is the only real means of exposing drug-taking in sport. It seems organisers FINA are happy to ignore it at the World Swimming Championships in Melbourne.
here is no problem if you don’t go looking for it! This could be FINA’s latest catch-phrase.
At the current FINA (Fédération Internationale de Natation) World Swimming Championships in Melbourne there is no blood testing for drugs. Why not? They have had seven years to include them in their repertoire since they were first carried out at the Sydney 2000 Games. Melbourne’s Sunday Herald Sun newspaper reported that blood tests, which detect human growth hormone, would not be conducted in Melbourne because they were apparently too expensive. Instead, only urine tests would be carried out.
"We never test for blood during competition and that's standard across a range of sports," FINA executive director Cornel Marculescu was quoted as saying. "We are extremely happy with our testing programme and we've been extremely pro-active in increasing testing procedures. It's very rare we have a problem." Only 300 drug tests (urine) are being carried out at the championships.
But to think that growth hormone is the only drug that blood testing could pick up is naive in the extreme. Apart from synthetic EPO and its companion Darbopoietin (blood boosters), there are many others which can only be detected by blood testing. The cheats have a free ride though these championships. They are not likely to persist using detectable blood doping drugs and it is even more naïve to think that if there is an opening, some swimmers won’t be tempted to use other blood boosters.
A new version of EPO called Dynepo, Synthetic Haemoglobins like Hemopure, RSR 13, Actovegin, PFC’s and blood transfusions, to list but a few, are all known oxygen enhancers and are not detectable in urine, only blood. And it can’t be that expensive when you consider that with the synthetic haemoglobins, one tube of blood (about 4 mls) centrifuged at high speed which separates the cells and fluid (plasma) portions of the blood is all that is needed to see if someone has used them.
Synthetic haemoglobins appear as a red fluid in comparison to the normal clear yellow. Can’t take more than five minutes and can be confirmed with more detailed tests using established equipment. This is the same procedure as would be done with the urine screening tests.
Isn’t it time that some of the world leaders in sport showed some leadership and get serious about the problem. The Olympics, cycling, many of the winter sports have used blood testing for years. If it’s good enough for them then why not FINA? Do they really believe their sport is cleaner than everyone else’s?
Do they believe that if they don’t go looking for it then there is no problem? The "too expensive" excuse is laughable when you consider the millions FINA will be earning in TV rights for the broadcast of the Championships. It would be funny if it wasn’t so serious. Another sport, another cop-out.
* Robin Parisotto is author of BLOOD SPORTS – the inside dope on drugs in sport.
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How do you defeat it? urine test
just a example, but it depends on what drug you take.
http://triponic.com/guidestutorials/how-to-pass-a-urine-test/Blood doping
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_dopinghttp://www.wada-ama.org/en/dynamic.ch2?pageCategory.id=626