To the people who believe Olympic athletes are doping, how can the athletes pass/avoid the anti-doping tests that they do? Wouldn’t it just result as positive and they be disqualified? Unless perhaps these tests fail on occasion?
To the people who believe Olympic athletes are doping, how can the athletes pass/avoid the anti-doping tests that they do? Wouldn’t it just result as positive and they be disqualified? Unless perhaps these tests fail on occasion?
There isn’t any one test that can check for every single drug. Most tests can return a negative result if there is less than a certain amount of a drug in someone’s system, so the athlete can take a PED in a small enough quantity that it gives them a boost but still isn’t enough to show up as a positive test result. And that’s not even mentioning the countries like Russia where the government is actively involved in helping athletes cheat and not get caught.