Don Catlin (Presenter)
Anti-Doping Research Institute
| Short Abstract In the sixties a group of members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) noted that drugs were being used to enhance the performance of Olympic athletes. They successfully persuaded the IOC to appoint a Medical Commission (MC). The IOC-MC proposed the anti-doping rules, developed and maintained the prohibited list of drugs, selected and inspected the testing laboratory in the host city and certified every positive case. The most intense and serious testing took place at the German Olympics in 1992 where gas chromatographs (GCs) were used to detect Stimulants. Anabolic steroids were first tested for by immunoassay at the Montreal summer games in 1976. Subsequent to the Games, these cases were confirmed by GC/MS in the first instance of GC/MS at the Olympic Games. The U.S. did not attend the 1980 Olympic Games where the detection of testosterone use was suspected based on the T/Epitestosterone (T/E ratio). In 1984 the IOC asked us to perform an analysis by GC/MC and perform a carbon isotope ratio test if the T component of T/E was elevated. Erythropoietin and Growth Hormone continue to be difficult to test for. |
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