Saturday 02, Apr 2011
Sport cheats losing battle
A consultant physician who was medical officer to the Irish team at the 1996 Olympics has said that Beijing Olympics would play host to the cleanest Olympics in living memory.
Dr Conor O’Brien, Ireland’s leading expert on drugs in sport, said, “There is well-founded optimism that we will no longer have the spectre of the last 20 years, with almost every sprint champion being exposed as a cheat.”
From Independent.ie:
On his return from Atlanta , the Dubliner launched the Irish Anti-Doping Committee of which he was also the inaugural chairman for six years. And after retiring from this post in 2005, he was appointed by the Government to represent Ireland on the World Anti-Doping Association (WADA). Having stepped down recently from that post too, he feels free to express his views on a subject critical to the future of all sport.
“When you consider the idea of a man of 6ft 5ins competing against an opponent possibly a foot smaller, it is fanciful to think of sport as being fair,” he said. “But where drugs are concerned, our objective must be to make it safe. Drugs like cocaine, anabolic steroids, growth hormone (hGH) and erythropoietin (EPO) kill people, by damaging the heart, causing tumours and bringing about a whole variety of conditions which shorten people’s lives.”
Dr O’Brien also said, “So, not only can testers pick up an illegal substance, they pick up such important changes as the ratio of testosterone to epi-testosterone in an athlete’s system. If you suddenly find the ratio is abnormal, then there is either something wrong with your system, or you’re getting it from an outside source.
“For the cheat, it’s no longer a matter of masking the drug: the effect the drug is having on the system is also being monitored. Changes in a person are observed. If, for instance, a person’s blood-count is normally x and it suddenly goes to y, suspicions are raised.”
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